A Balloon Ascension at Midnight (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Balloon Ascension at MidnightE had agreed, my companion and I, that I should call for him at his house, after dinner, not later than eleven o'clock.This athletic young Frenchman belongs to a small set of Parisian sportsmen, who have taken up balloon ing as a pastime.After having exhausted all the sensations that are to be found in ordinary sports, even those of automobiling at a breakneck speed, the members of the Aéro Club now seek in the air, where they indulge in all kinds of daring feats, the nerve racking excitement that they have ceased to find on earth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.