Falling Upwards - How We Took to the Air

Informationen zum Autor Richard Holmes was born in London in 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge. In 1974 his Shelley: The Pursuit won the Somerset Maugham Award and was described by Stephen Spender as ‘surely the best biography of Shelley ever written’. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was awarded an OBE in 1992 and the Biographers' Club Lifetime Services to Biography Prize in 2014. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain. Klappentext 'Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, 'Falling Upwards' is really a history of hope and fantasy - and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physics and gave humans flight' New Republic, Best Books of 2013 Zusammenfassung ‘Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, ‘Falling Upwards’ is really a history of hope and fantasy – and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physics and gave humans flight’ New Republic, Best Books of 2013

Product details

• Authors: Richard Holmes
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.07.2014
• EAN: 9780007476510
• ISBN: 978-0-00-747651-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 30 mm
• Series: William Collins; How We Took to the Air
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Luftfahrt : Geschichte, Ballon, Ballonfahrt