Lighter Than Air

Name: Lighter Than Air
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SKU: 9780646820217
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Australian Ballooning History

By Helene Rogers

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Lighter Than Air by Helene Rogers delves into the evolution of airships and their significant influence on military history. It explores the technical advancements, strategic importance, and dramatic incidents involving these majestic machines. The book provides insights into both the innovation and challenges faced in their deployment.
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This book may appeal to you if you have an interest in the history and technological advancements of air travel, particularly the fascinating world of airships and military aviation. You'll enjoy exploring the captivating chronicles of lighter-than-air vehicles, advancements in aerodynamics, and their roles in historical military contexts.

Lighter Than Air

Australian Ballooning History

Description

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 and farcical incidents; aeronauts blown out to sea, onto rooftops. Many were crippled. Some even died.

Lighter Than Air showcases the exciting history of ballooning in Australia, and gives us an insight into these larger-than-life pioneers of the skies, and the emergence and expansion of modern ballooning.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780646820217

Publisher: Affirm Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 June 2021

Country: Australia

Imprint: Affirm Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 300g

Pages: 240

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Australian & Pacific History Helene Rogers History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Helene Rogers has worked as a freelance journalist, as a communications officer, as a recruitment and media consultant and also in Women's and Children's Health for most of her life. 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 by Encyclopaedia Britannica to write the first chapter for their book, Hot Air Ballooning on the history of ballooning.