Beskrivelse
The Romance of Ballooning : The Story of the Early Aeronauts by Edita Lausanne.
The Viking Press, 1971 – 197 sider – Hellærredsbind med smudsbind, stort format.
Rigt illustreret med fotos og gamle stik, hvoraf mange er indklæbede kopier.
Bogen er i særdeles fin stand.
En fantastisk illustreret bog om et facinerende emne – et pragtværk.
“This book is about the realisation of man’s oldest dream – the conquest of the skies. The sensational discoveries of the Montgolfier brothers in 1783 pointed the way to the adventure of the free balloon. From then on the romantic story of “lighter-than-air” machines has been told in the words of those who made them, who flew in them, or who watched them drift through the skies. Indeed, these pioneers are the autores of this book, and they speak with all the enthusiasm and wonder engendred by this new science when it first began to sweep the world”.
