Título:
Sky sailors : true stories of the balloon era / David L. Bristow.
ISBN:
9780374370145
Autor personal:
Edición:
First edition.
Información de publicación:
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2010]
©2010
Descripción física:
134 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contenido:
The black moon: the first balloon flights (France, 1783) -- Queen of the night sky: Sophie and Jean-Piere Blanchard (France, 1784-1819) -- Splashdown in Lake Erie: John Steiner (United States, 1857) -- The children are gone!: Martha and David Harvey (United States, 1858) -- The long voyage: the flight of the balloon Atlantic (United States, 1859) -- To the top of the sky: Coxwell and Glaisher's record altitude (United Kingdom, 1862) -- The siege of Paris: the balloon-and-pigeon post (France, 1870-1871) -- The North Pole balloon: Salomon Andrees's expedition (Sweden and the Arctic Ocean, 1897) -- Parachute girl: Dolly Shepherd (United Kingdom, 1903-12).
Síntesis:
Traces the evolution of the balloon era, from 1783-1912, and examines the exploits of the men and women who flew in them, parachuted from them, and sometimes died in them.
Información del programa:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.0 4.0 140521.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 5.5 8 Quiz: 52035.
DAK_521_LEXILE:
850L Lexile
DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn437186717
Disponibilidad:
Lakeville - Heritage~1
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
