Sky Sailors: True Stories of the Balloon Era

by David L. Bristow

Book Overview

For more than a century before airplanes, people explored the sky in balloons. From 1783 to the early 1900s, aeronauts flew into storms, crossed large bodies of water, sailed over enemy armies, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374370141
• ISBN13: 9780374370145
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 9 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 8