First Air Voyage in America
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ISBN: 0823412245 / Publisher: Holiday House, February 1996
Recounts the voyage of an eighteenth-century French aeronaut by hot air balloon from Philadelphia to Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1793
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An introduction to the great early balloonist follows Blanchard's construction of a hot-air balloon, his history-making first flights, his achievements in England and America, the scientific experiments he conducted, and the first air-mail letter.
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