Lighter Than Air
Australian Ballooning History
$40.00
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
8 June 2021
Summary
Fledgling balloonists in nineteenth century Australia realised that their aerial endeavours added little to their pockets, or to science. Re-inventing themselves as showmen and women, they performed daring acrobatics from trapezes and parachutes, touring towns and cities all over the country.
Along the way, they faced primitive and challenging conditions; experienced petty squabbles, farcical incidents; aeronauts blown out to sea, onto rooftops. Many were crippled. Some even died.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780646820217 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0646820214 |
| Author: | Helene Rogers |
| Publisher: | Affirm |
| Imprint: | Affirm Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 8 June 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.32kg |
| Dimensions: | 371mm x 249mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
Helene Rogers
Helene Rogers has worked as a freelance journalist, communications officer, recruitment and media consultant, and in Women’s and Children’s Health. Her love of history and words started at school, and her love of ballooning much later. After seeing Chris Dewhirst’s film of his first attempt to overfly Mount Everest, and having interviewed him, she was inspired to write Australia’s ballooning history.
Helene’s favourite balloon flight in Victoria was in the Yarra Valley, and in Turkey, it was flying over the Fairy Chimneys of Cappadocia at dawn. Helene lives in Melbourne and spent decades researching, writing, and editing this book. She has also published a monograph, Brown, Dean and Coppin and Early Ballooning in Australia and was commissioned to write the first chapter for their book, Hot Air Ballooning on the history of ballooning.
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