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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
Richard Holmes
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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
Richard Holmes
‘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
416 pages, 40 col illus, 40 b/w plates
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 3, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780007476510 |
| Publishers | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Pages | 416 |
| Dimensions | 197 × 131 × 28 mm · 304 g |
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