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Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (876 download)
Download or read book Up in the Clouds; Or, Balloon Voyages ... With Illustrations written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : DigiCat
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Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Up in the Clouds: Balloon Voyages written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Up in the Clouds: Balloon Voyages" by R. M. Ballantyne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726987147
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Up in the Clouds written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrations. Transport. Science lessons. Today, balloons are a casual part of everyday life, noticed but not really considered. Can you imagine a world in which balloons are the newest, most exciting development in technology? RM Ballantyne explores the earliest attempts to fly using balloons in his short story 'Up in the Clouds', and his lively prose makes this adventure just as exciting to read as it would be to experience. Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825 - 1894) was a Scottish author. Born into a family of famous printers and publishers, his expertise was juvenile fiction, and he wrote over 100 hugely successful books in this genre. The most notable of these include ‘The Coral Island’, ‘The Eagle Cliff’, and ‘The Gorilla Hunters’. Famed for his tendency to fully immerse himself into the environment of whichever story he was working on, his lively prose is unmissable for those who enjoyed Matt Haig’s ‘The Midnight Library’.
Author : R. M. Ballantyne
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ISBN 13 : 9781899067015
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Up in the Clouds written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Up in the Clouds written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ballantyne R M (Robert Michael)
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318867103
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Up in the Clouds written by Ballantyne R M (Robert Michael) and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
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Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Up in the Clouds written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-19 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every one in health knows, or at some period of life must have known, that upward bounding of the spirit which induces a longing for the possession of wings, that the material body might be wafted upwards into those blue realms of light, which are so attractive to the eye and imagination of poor creeping man that he has appropriately styled them the heavens.
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
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Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Up in the Clouds, Or, Balloon Voyages written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Up in the Clouds written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is man's nature to soar intellectually, and it seems to have been his ambition from earliest ages to soar physically. Every one in health knows, or at some period of life must have known, that upward bounding of the spirit which induces a longing for the possession of wings, that the material body might be wafted upwards into those blue realms of light, which are so attractive to the eye and imagination of poor creeping man that he has appropriately styled them the heavens. Man has envied the birds since the world began. Who has not watched, with something more than admiration, the easy gyrations of the sea-mew, and listened, with something more than delight, to the song of the soaring lark? To fly with the body as well as with the mind, is a wish so universal that the benignant Creator Himself seems to recognise it in that most attractive passage in Holy Writ, wherein it is said that believers shall "mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." Of course man has not reached the middle of the nineteenth century without making numerous attempts to fly bodily up to the skies. Fortunately, however, such ambitious efforts have seldom been made except by the intellectually enthusiastic. Prosaic man, except in the case of the Tower of Babel, has remained content to gaze upwards with longing desire, and only a few of our species in the course of centuries have possessed temerity enough to make the deliberate effort to ride upon the wings of the wind.
Author : Matthew Olshan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374329540
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)
Download or read book A Voyage in the Clouds written by Matthew Olshan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious fictionalized retelling of the first international balloon flight.
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Up in the Clouds written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The germ of the invention of the balloon lies in the discovery of Mr Cavendish, made in 1766, thathydrogen gas, called inflammable air, is at least seven times lighter than atmospheric air. Foundingon this fact, Dr Black of Edinburgh proved by experiment that a very thin bag, filled with this gas, would rise to the ceiling of a room.In Dr Thomson's History of Chemistry, an anecdote, related by Mr Benjamin Bell, refers to this asfollows: -"Soon after the appearance of Mr Cavendish's paper on hydrogen gas, in which he made anapproximation to the specific gravity of that body, showing that it was at least ten times lighter thancommon air, Dr Black invited a party of friends to supper, informing them that he had a curiosity toshow them. Dr Hutton, Mr Clerk of Eldin, and Sir George Clerk of Penicuik, were of the number.When the company invited had arrived, he took them into a room where he had the allantois of acalf filled with hydrogen gas, and, upon setting it at liberty, it immediately ascended and adhered tothe ceiling. The phenomenon was easily accounted for; it was taken for granted that a small blackthread had been attached to the allantois, that the thread passed through the ceiling, and that someone in the apartment above, by pulling the thread, elevated it to the ceiling, and kept it in itsposition! This explanation was so plausible, that it was agreed to by the whole company, though, likemany other plausible theories, it turned out wholly fallacious, for, when the allantois was broughtdown, no thread whatever was found attached to it. Dr Black explained the cause of the ascent tohis admiring friends; but such was his carelessness of his own reputation, that he never gave the leastaccount of this curious experiment even to his class, and several years elapsed before this obviousproperty of hydrogen gas was applied to the elevation of balloons."Cavallo made the first practical attempts with hydrogen gas six years later, but he only succeeded incausing soap-bubbles to ascend.At last the art of aerial navigation was discovered in France, and in 1782 the first ascent was made.The triumph was achieved by Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, sons of a wealthy paper-maker whodwelt at Annonay, on the banks of a rivulet which flows into the Rhone, not far from Lyon
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Up in the Clouds, Or, Balloon Voyages written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307908704
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Falling Upwards written by Richard Holmes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell. His accounts of the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of the beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar are dramatic and exhilarating. Holmes documents as well the balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the Civil War (including a flight taken by George Armstrong Custer); the legendary tale of at least sixty-seven manned balloons that escaped from Paris (the first successful civilian airlift in history) during the Prussian siege of 1870-71; the high-altitude exploits of James Glaisher (who rose) seven miles above the earth without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology); and how Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jules Verne felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. A seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography, and the metaphysics of flights, Falling Upwards explores the interplay between technology and imagination. And through the strange allure of these great balloonists, it offers a masterly portrait of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision. (With 24 pages of color illustrations, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
Author : Fulgence Marion
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Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Wonderful Balloon Ascents written by Fulgence Marion and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
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Total Pages : 119 pages
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Download or read book Up in the Clouds written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 100 pages
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Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026868889
Total Pages : 9421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)
Download or read book EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEYS – Complete Collection: 41 Adventure Classics in One Volume (Illustrated) written by Jules Verne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 9421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: “EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEYS – Complete Collection: 41 Adventure Classics in One Volume (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Five Weeks in a Balloon Journey to the Centre of the Earth From the Earth to the Moon Around the Moon The Adventures of Captain Hatteras In Search of the Castaways Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea A Floating City The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa The Fur Country Around the World in Eighty Days The Mysterious Island The Survivors of the Chancellor Michael Strogoff Hector Servadac The Underground City Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen The Begum's Fortune Tribulations of a Chinaman in China The Steam House Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Godfrey Morgan or, The Robinson Crusoe School The Green Ray Mathias Sandorf The Star of the South Ticket No. “9672” Robur the Conqueror The Master of the World The Waif of “Cynthia” North Against South or, Texar's Revenge The Flight to France or, The Memoirs of a Dragoon Kéraban the Inflexible Adrift in Pacific or, Two Years' Vacation Topsy Turvy Cesar Cascabel Mistress Branican The Castle of the Carpathians Claudius Bombarnac Captain Antifer Facing the Flag An Antarctic Mystery Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
