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Falling Upwards Audiobook

Inspiration For The Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts

by Richard Holmes
language: english
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, October of 2019 ‧
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A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW REPUBLIC BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME MAGAZINE TOP 10 NONFICTION BOOK OF 2013From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to analyse the air to war generals floating across enemy lines, Richard Holmes takes to the air in this heart-lifting history of pioneer balloonists.Falling Upwards asks why they risked their lives, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet. The stories range from early ballooning rivals to the long-distance voyages of American entrepreneurs; from the legendary balloon escape from the Prussian siege of Paris to dauntless James Glaisher, who in the 1860s flew seven miles above the earth - without oxygen.Falling Upwards has inspired the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts - in cinemas SOON.

Falling Upwards

Inspiration For The Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts

by Richard Holmes

Property Description
ISBN: 9780008382155
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date: October of 2019
Language: English
Format: Audiobook
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Categories: Audiobooks in English > Fiction
EAN: 9780008382155

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Richard Holmes

Britânico, Richard Holmes recebeu a sua formação na Downside School, em Somerset, e no Churchill College, em Cambridge. É membro da Royal Society of Literature e Fellow da British Academy. Em 1992 foi condecorado com a Ordem do Império Britânico. Lecionou Estudos Biográficos na Universidade de East Anglia entre 2001 e 2007 e tem doutoramentos honorários das Universidades de East London e Kingston e do Instituto Tavistock. É o editor da coleção de biografias clássicas da Harper Perennial, lançada em 2004.

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