Titel: Around the World in 20 Days : The Story of Our History-Making Balloon Flight
Verlag: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0471378208
ISBN-13: 9780471378204
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: 1st Edition.
Zustand: Good

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Two European balloonists offer a firsthand account of their epic 1999, nineteen-day, around-the-world odyssey, from Switzerland to Eygpt, detailing the challenges they faced and the near disasters they avoided, accompanied by personal photographs of and diary excerpts about their journey. 100,000 first printing.

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The Story of the First-Ever Round-the-World Balloon Flight As Told by the Pilots "Both of us were being driven on by a colossal charge of hope, which sometimes became so strong that we had to take deep breaths and physically choke it down. The important thing, now, was to concentrate and not make any mistakes." -- Brian Jones, March 4, flying over the Sahara Desert "This is exactly my definition of adventure...a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed." -- Bertrand Piccard, diary entry March 10, heading out over the Pacific

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