Flight
from a balloon to the moon – and beyond
$41.40
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
21 October 2024
Summary
Taking to the Skies: An Aviation Adventure
From a hot air balloon to holidays on the moon, award-winning David Long captures the astonishing true stories of advances in aviation.
From the Wright Brothers’ twelve seconds aloft to the Moon landings less than a lifetime later, the story of aviation is not just a series of astonishing advances made at breathtaking speed. It’s also about the courage and ingenuity of the men and women who made such rapid progress possible; about t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571374793 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0571374794 |
| Author: | David Long, Terri Po |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 21 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 1.18kg |
| Dimensions: | 305mm x 235mm |
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About The Author
David Long
Writer and historian David Long is the award-winning and bestselling author of the acclaimed Survivors series, Pirates Magnified, We are the Romans, The World’s Most Magnificent Machines, Tragedy at Sea, The Story of the London Underground and more than twenty other non-fiction books on a wide range of historical subjects. He is married to Rosy and lives in Suffolk.
Terri Po is a children’s book illustrator who was highly commended in the FAB Prize. She is originally from Hong Kong but graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2018. She creates editorial illustrations, infographics and illustrated books, as well as doing live graphic facilitation.
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