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Lighter than air : Sophie Blanchard, the first woman pilot / Matthew Clark Smith ; illustrated by Matt Tavares.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], 2017Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Juvenile
ISBN:
  • 9780763677329
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 629.13092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • TL620.B62 S65 2017
Summary: Shares the life of the first female to work as a professional balloonist, describing how she made more than sixty ascents until she became the first woman to die in an aviation accident in 1819.
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Books Idaho Springs Public Library Junior Biography J B BLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 30404100178381
Books John Tomay Memorial Library Junior Biography J B BLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31030100181445

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Shares the life of the first female to work as a professional balloonist, describing how she made more than sixty ascents until she became the first woman to die in an aviation accident in 1819.

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