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Hardcover Balloon Madness: Flights of Imagination in Britain, 1783-1786 Book

ISBN: 1783272538

ISBN13: 9781783272532

Balloon Madness: Flights of Imagination in Britain, 1783-1786

In this sparkling account, Brant uses the brief moment of balloon madness as a way into a wide-ranging exploration of Enlightenment sensibility in Britain.

All the world is mad about balloons observers recorded during the craze in Britain that lasted from 1783 to 1786. Excitement about the new invention spread rapidly, inspiring hopes, visions, fashions, celebrations, satires, imaginary heroics and real adventures. In this sparkling account,...

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