"An extraordinary cabinet of drifting aerial wonderment." --The Wall Street Journal
"Out of an ostensibly placid, dreamy activity . . . Holmes conjures an extraordinarily vivid, violent, thrilling history, full of bizarre personalities, narrow escapes and fatal plunges." --Time "No writer alive writes better about the past than Holmes. . . . The stories are remarkable." --The New York Times Book Review "Holmes has a rare and infectious capacity for wonderment. . . . He tells his balloon stories with inimitable zest. . . . A heady, swoopingly aerodynamic book." --The Observer (UK) "Holmes's writing is a carnival of historical delights; at every turn there is a surprise. . . . He sneaks the whole trajectory of mankind into three hundred and fifty pages." --The New Yorker.com "Enthralling, picaresque history. . . . Holmes cuts his thrilling set-pieces with haunting images. . . . Appropriately, his prose is lighter than air, elegantly traversing aviators and eras. It means that as his balloonists embark on journeys full of danger and wonder the reader is suspended in the basket alongside them." --Financial Times "The book that gave me the most unadulterated delight this year. . . . The book is nominally a history of the hot air balloon, but it would be more accurate to describe it as a history of hope and fantasy--and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physics and gave humans flight." --Chloe Schama, The New Republic "Holmes' passion for the topic comes through in this rich and often entertaining chronicle of intrepid vertical explorers who risked (and in many cases lost) their lives lifting human flight out of the realm of mythology and into the air." --Discover "Holmes is a charming and impassioned guide. . . . His prose often reaches a moving pitch." --Newsday "Holmes' love for the balloon . . . is obvious. . . . A fine addition to his already extraordinary oeuvre." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "A book as delightful as it is unexpected, one that is a testament to the sheer pleasures of writing about what you know, about what excites you and what gives you joy. And what more joyous a topic than the hilarious insanities of 'Falling upwards'!" --The Wall Street Journal "Gripping. . . . Meticulous history illuminated and animated by personal passion, carried aloft by volant prose." --Kirkus "A full-blown, lyrical history . . . investigating the strangeness, detachment and powerful romance of 'falling upwards' into a seemingly alien and uninhabitable element. . . . Holmes is a truly masterly storyteller ." --London Evening Standard"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.
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