Name: Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air - Paperback
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ISBN: 9780307742322

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air - Paperback

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by Richard Holmes (Author)

**Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013**
**The New Republic Best Books of 2013**
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**

In a dazzling fusion of history, art, science, and biography, Falling Upwards resurrects the daring men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air in balloons.

Richard Holmes gives us another of his unforgettable portraits of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision, weaving together exhilarating accounts of early balloon rivalries, pioneering ascents over Victorian cities, and astonishing long-distance voyages. The terrifying high-altitude flights of James Glaisher helped to establish the science of meteorology as well as the notion of a fragile planet, while balloons were also used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the American Civil War. Here too are the many writers--Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, and more--who felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. Holmes tells the history of ballooning from every angle--scientific to poetic--through the adventurers and entrepreneurs, scientists and escapists, heroes and fools who were possessed by the longing to be airborne.

(With 24 pages of color illustrations, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)

Author Biography

RICHARD HOLMES is the author of The Age of Wonder, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Books Critics Circle Award, and was one of The New York Times Book Review's Best Books of the Year in 2009. Holmes's other books include Footsteps, Sidetracks, Shelley: The Pursuit (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award) Coleridge: Early Visions (winner of the1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award) Coleridge: Darker Reflections (an NBCC finalist), and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (winner of the James Tait Black Prize). He was awarded the OBE in 1992. He lives in England.

Number of Pages: 448

Dimensions: 1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN

Publication Date: September 09, 2014

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