| #5674320 in Books | 2002-09-05 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File Name: 0340819324 | 250 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A fine mix of adventure story, history and popular science|By J. Cantor|Acton delivers a brisk, well-written history of ballooning, focusing on the extraordinary achievements of Joe Kittinger, a US Air Force pilot who, in 1960, ascended in a balloon over 100,000 feet to the edge of space and then parachuted back to earth. In telling Kittinger's story, Acton catalogues key even||"Praise for MUSHROOM: 'Johnny Acton and Nick Sandler have hit the toadstool on their head' - Mike de Stroumillo, Wild Harvest|About the Author|Johnny Acton was born in 1966. Since studying philosophy and theology at unive
On August 15th 1960, Joe Kittinger went up in a balloon, and kept going up. This is the story of an incredible journey, but beyond that is the biography of man's unfolding relationship with the sky. When Joe Kittinger finally came to a halt, he found himself in a paradoxical world of preternatural colour where the sun blazed from a sky as black as pitch. A few minutes on the very border of space were enough to persuade him to throw himself from his open gondola with rel...
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