THE GREATEST ADVENTURE, THE BALLOONISTS' OWN EPIC TALE OF THEIR ROUND-THE-WORLD VOYAGE

Piccard, Bertrand & Jones, Brian

ISBN 10: 0747271291 / ISBN 13: 9780747271291

Verlag: Headline, Ldn, 1999

Beschreibung

308 pp.+ 24 Color Photo Plts, Blue Color Illus Paperback, Fine, 1st ed.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 112092

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: THE GREATEST ADVENTURE, THE BALLOONISTS' OWN EPIC TALE OF THEIR ROUND-THE-WORLD VOYAGE
• Verlag: Headline, Ldn
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0747271291
• ISBN-13: 9780747271291
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Fine
• Verkäuferkataloge:
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Inhaltsangabe

In this tense and often moving narrative, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, the pilots of the Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon, tell the remarkable story of their record-breaking round the world flight in March 1999, one of the great feats of human endurance.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brian Jones is a 53-year-old grandfather who was responsible for the construction of the gondola and flight systems of the balloon. He was the co-pilot in the Breitling Orbiter 3. Bertrand Piccard is a Swiss doctor who was the pilot in all three Breitling Orbiter attempts. His grandfather was the first man to fly to the stratosphere in a balloon, while his father was the first man to go to the deepest part of the ocean.