FULL PUBLICATION DETAILS OF EACH ACCOUNT CAN BE FOUND IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY, UNDER THE AUTHOR’S NAME
The Marquis d’Arlandes, ‘The First Mongolfière Ascent with Pilâtre de Rozier’, 21 November 1783
Dr Alexandre Charles, ‘The First Hydrogen Balloon Ascent’, 1 December 1783
Vincent Lunardi, ‘My First Aerial Voyage in England’, September 1784
John Jeffries, ‘Across the Channel with Monsieur Blanchard’, January 1785
Laetitia Sage, ‘The First English Female Aerial Traveller’, 1785
Major John Money, ‘A Balloon Flight from Norwich to the North Sea’, 1785
Tiberius Cavallo, FRS, A Treatise on Aerostation, 1785
Thomas Baldwin, Airopaedia, 1786
Jean-Pierre Blanchard, ‘My First Balloon Ascent in America’, 1794
Jacques Garnerin, Three Aerial Voyages, 1803
Rudolf Erich Raspe, The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, 1809
Mary Shelley, The Last Man, 1825
Jane Loudon, The Mummy!, 1827
Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall’, 1835
Monck Mason, Aeronautica, 1838
John Poole, ‘Crotchets in the Air’, 1838
Edgar Allan Poe, The Trans-Atlantic Balloon Hoax, 1844
Henry Mayhew, ‘A Balloon Flight Over London’, 1852
Jean Bruno, Les Aventures de Paul enlevé par un ballon, 1858
General George C. Custer, ‘War Memoirs of 1862’, 1876
Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon, 1864
Félix Nadar, Memoires du Géant, Paris, 1864
Gaston Tissandier, ‘L’Histoire d’un ballon’, 1870
James Glaisher, Travels in the Air, London, 1871
Gaston Tissandier, ‘Les Ballons du siège de Paris’, 1872
Thomas Wise, Through the Air, 1873
Wilfrid de Fonvielle, Aventures aériennes, 1876
James Glaisher, ‘Address to the Young Men’s Christian Association on a high-altitude balloon ascent with Mr Coxwell’, 1875
Henry Coxwell, My Life and Balloon Experiences, 1887
Thaddeus C. Lowe, My Balloons in Peace and War, 1890
H.G. Wells, The War in the Air, 1908
Salomon Andrée, The Andrée Diaries, 1931
Jean de Brunhoff, Le Voyage de Babar, 1932
Anthony Smith, Throw Out Two Hands, 1963
Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, 1997
David Hempleman-Adams, At the Mercy of the Winds, 2001