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02430aam a2200289M 4500 001 8D373D8E0F2511E9BB56EF4997128E48 003 SILO 005 20190103010119 008 170622s2018 enk 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9781526708342 020 $a 1526708345 035 $a (OCoLC)991350095 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d UV0 $d OCLCF $d IWA $d SILO 050 4 $a TL616 W75x 2018 100 1 $a Wright, Sharon. 245 10 $a Balloonomania Belles : $b daredevil divas who first took to the sky / $c Sharon Wright. 260 $a South Yorkshire, UK : $b Pen & Sword History, $c 2018. 300 $a vii,175 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 505 0 $a 1. Wonder women -- 2. Maiden flights -- 3. Sex, scandal and Mrs Sage -- 4. The Fabulous Birdwoman of France -- 5. Mistresses of misadventure -- 6. Queens of the American clouds -- 7. Champers and hampers ... how the other half flew -- 8. Of pluck and parachutes -- 9. Lily and Dolly: the last of the belles. 520 $a "[This book] reveals the show stopping stories of the female pioneers of balloon flight. More than a century before the first aeroplane women were heading for the heavens in crazy, inspired contraptions that could bring death or glory and all too often, both. Women were in the vanguard of the 'Balloonomania' craze that took hold in the eighteenth and nneteenth centuries and swept across Europe then the world. Their exploits were a vital element of our first voyages into the sky. When women endured second-class status on the ground they managed to join the thrilling human quest for spectacle and discovery among the clouds. From the first perilous ascents in the 1780s, women never looked back ... or down. For 125 years they enjoyed a series of comic, tragic and heroic adventures. They were actresses, writers, heiresses, scientists, explorers, showgirls and suffragettes in the glorious golden age of ballooning - before war clouds and aeroplanes changed the skies forever. Who were these women who took to the sky when it was such an incredibly dangerous and scandalous thing to do?"--Book jacket. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Hot air balloons $x History. 650 0 $a Ballooning $x History. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190103015722.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8D373D8E0F2511E9BB56EF4997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search