Название: A View From Above: 200 Years of Aviation in Ireland
Автор: Donald MacCarron
Издательство: O'Brien
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 186
Размер: 160,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Richard Crosby's ballooning exhibition in Ranelagh Gardens, Dublin in 1784 started a craze for aerial endeavor among the Irish. Even George Bernard Shaw got in on the act, viewing the ground through a hole in the basket, resulting in an early episode of air-sickness!