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THROUGH THE AIR,
By Prof. John Wise, the Aeronaut,
A NARRATIVE OF
FORTY YEARS' ADVENTURE IN THE CLOUDS,
Full of Thrilling Incidents and Hairbreadth Escapes, Remarkable Ascensions in
all Ages and Lands.
In this handsome work, Prof. Wise has included a complete history
of the art of navigating the air, from the earliest human attempts
in that direction to the present time. He has given a full and most
intensely interesting account of his own early experiments, made
nearly half a century ago, when he was beginning his career; he has
described in graphic language a multitude of the thrilling adventures
which he has experienced during the four hundred and fifty voyages
that he has made above the earth; he has depicted in eloquent terms
many of the gorgeous scenes which have greeted his eyes in cloud-land;
he has unveiled some of the mysteries of the storm and
tempest, and told us of his sensations when time and again he swept
with his balloon amid the gloomy billows of clouds, and hung suspended
in the air while the thunder roared and the lightning played
close about him.
The results of his meteorological studies are related in such a plain
and unaffected fashion, that the most unlearned reader may comprehend
and enjoy them. He has supplied narratives of wonderful
voyages made by other aeronauts in other lands, and he has filled
the volume from first to last with stories of unparalleled experiences,
marvellous escapes, and perilous adventures, such as are not found
in any other similar work in existence. The volume contains, moreover,
a complete practical explanation of the art of constructing and
managing balloons, the result of an uninterrupted experience of more
than forty years.
“Through the Air” is further enriched with a profusion of illustrations,
drawn by the ablest artists that could be procured, and
engraved under our own supervision by the most skilful workmen.
We believe that this is the most elegantly illustrated volume of the
kind ever issued, and that it will possess the deepest interest for
the scientist, the merchant, the farmer and the laborer, the learned
and the unlearned, the young and the old, and for readers of all
classes and ages.
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