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Title: Balloonmania Belles: Daredevil Divas Who First Took to the Sky
Author: WRIGHT SHARON
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/05/2018
Imprint: PEN & SWORD
Price: $53.00
Publishing status: Active
‘Balloonomania Belles’ reveals the astonishing stories of the fabulous female pioneers of balloon
flight. More than a century before the first aeroplane women were heading for the heavens in
crazy, inspired contraptions that could bring death or glory and all too often, both. Award-winning
journalist Sharon Wright reveals their hair-raising adventures in a book that brings the stories of
the feisty female ballooning heroines together for the first time. Women were in the vanguard of
the Balloonomania craze that took hold in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and swept
across Europe then the world. Their exploits were a vital element of our first voyages into the
sky. When women s options were often severely limited by law and convention they managed to
join the exhilarating quest for spectacle, adventure and danger among the clouds. Many of the
brightest stars of this extraordinary era of human flight were women. From the perilous ascent in
1784 by feisty French teenager Elisabeth Thible, female aeronauts have never looked back or
down. Who were these brave women who took to the air when it was such an incredibly
dangerous and scandalous thing to do? Sharon Wright brings together in one book the
show-stopping stories of the very first flying women.
32 b/w illustrations
ISBN: 9781526708342