The amazing air balloon
By: Jean Van Leeuwen ; pictures by Marco Ventura.
Contributors: Ventura, Marco, ill.
Publisher: Phyllis Fogelman Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Hot air balloons -- Fiction.; Balloon ascensions -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In this story based on true events, a thirteen-year-old apprentice takes the first manned hot air balloon flight in America and gains new insight into life's possibilities.
Notes: Edward Warren was the first person aloft in a balloon in America on June 24, 1784.