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Riders of the winds : the story of ballooning

Title
  1. Riders of the winds : the story of ballooning / Don Dwiggins.
Published by
  1. New York : Hawthorn Books, ©1973.
Author
  1. Dwiggins, Don.

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Description
  1. x, 180 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
  1. An account of present-day sport ballooning rounds out this history of balloons through the past two centuries. Provides information about the mechanics involved and surveys the uses of balloons in peace and war.
Subject
  1. Ballooning > History
  2. Ballooning
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Sport of the gods -- What good is a newborn babe? -- Up, up, and away! -- Ballooning in the new world -- The balloonatics -- To the poles! -- Grandfather of the jet stream -- Europe or bust! -- War balloons -- Hotels in the sky -- Ghost balloons -- Hands off!
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 175.