The (Mostly) True Story of the First International Flight by Balloon in 1785
by
Matthew Olshan
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
In the year and a half since the flight of the first manned balloon in 1783, an Italian has flown, a Scot has flown, a woman has flown, even a sheep has flown. But no one has flown from one country to another. John Jeffries, an Englishman, and his pilot, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, a Frenchman, want to...