The Balloon Factory: The Story of the Men Who Built Britain's First Flying Machines

ISBN-13: 9780330433112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str.

Alexander Frater

Opis

'The Balloon Factory' is about a small, largely forgotten group of young men who, early in the 20th century, competed to build and fly England's first aeroplane.

O autorze

Frater, Alexander
Alexander Frater has contributed to various UK publications - Miles Kington called him 'the funniest man who wrote for Punch since the war' - and as chief travel correspondent of the Observer, he won an unprecedented number of British Press Travel Awards. He lives in London though, whenever time and money allow, is likely to be found skulking deep in the hot, wet tropics.