{"product_id":"2940016735542","title":"Balloons Aloft: Flying South Dakota Skies","description":"Balloons Aloft: Flying South Dakota Skies: by Arley K. Fadness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBalloons Aloft: Flying South Dakota Skies, highlights significant ballooning events and pioneering aeronauts in South Dakota. On the 150th anniversary publication of Jules Verne’s classic Cinq Semaines En Balloon (Five Weeks in a Balloon), Balloons Aloft: relives the same\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eimagination, daring risks and courageous adventures that characterized not only Verne’s novel, but also, and prophetically -- the history, art and science of ballooning in South Dakota and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArley Fadness writes as a former employee and friend of Ed Yost, the Father of the Modern Hot Air Balloon. Balloons Aloft: offers the reader a fascinating balloon ride through stories, ancedotes and adventures of celebrated aeronauts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBalloons Aloft chronicles the history of Ballooning in it’s many different forms in South Dakota. For a state with a small population, South Dakota has been a major player in ballooning worldwide. This book gives an entertaining and informative perspective on the key characters connected to ballooning in the 20th century. Arley Fadness is in a unique position to give eyewitness views of many of these pioneers in modern ballooning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorma Kraemer, pilot and author of Images of Aviation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSouth Dakota’s First Century of flight.","brand":"Xulon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164638200048,"sku":"2940016735542","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016735542_p0.jpg?v=1763640506","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016735542","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}