A voyage in the clouds
Subtitle: the (mostly) true story of the first international flight by balloon in 1785
By: Matthew Olshan ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall
Contributors: Blackall, Sophie, illustrator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 2016
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374329549
Subjects: Fiction; Ballooning; Juvenile fiction; Hot air balloons; Balloon ascensions
Description: "A picture book inspired by the true story of how the first international flight was an Englishman and a French man who rode in a balloon across the English Channel"--

Dr. John Jeffries and his pilot, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, each want to be the first man to fly from one country to another, across the English Channel. There's only one problem: they can't stand each other! Inspired by the true story of the first international flight.