Buy Ballooning Books Online with Amazon
To complete the occasion, why not get a book about hot air ballooning or the Oxford area?
The Oxford Balloon Company has teamed up with Amazon so that you can these buy books online, often at a significant discount.
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The Oxford Balloon Company, in association with Amazon.co.uk, gives you the opportunity to order:
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Take a look at these titles - just click on the title to see more details or ordering information. Prices shown below are list price - the actual price is often discounted, by up to 20% or more.
Ballooning |
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Hardcover - 192 pages (4 August, 1998) |
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Written by the ballooning expert also famous as a BBC broadcaster, this book covers every aspect of ballooning: the history, science and techniques of balloon flight; the recent around-the-world record attempts; thrills, spills exploration and adventures; special shapes, singletons, airships and models; advertising and other commercial uses; locations, from the Sahara to Antarctica and manufacturers, clubs and useful addresses. |
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The Joy of Ballooning |
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Hardcover - 160 pages (April 1999) |
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The Joy of Ballooning was written to encourage a person who enjoys balloons to become more involved. It seeks to explain the many ways that people use balloons to get high. First and foremost, there is balloon-watching, where the enjoyment increases with increasing knowledge. Then there is crewing for a balloon and its pilot. Crewing is a separate sport in its own right, requiring trailering and navigational skills that a pilot need not have. Crewing is a fun way to get more involved, and ultimately to get a ride! After the small plane Voyager succeeded in its attempt to circle the world non-stop and without refuelling, the only remaining milestone in aviation was for a balloon to do the same thing. That milestone was achieved by Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones on March 19, 1999. In this book, we describe the events leading up to this remarkable flight. |
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The Greatest Adventure |
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Hardcover - 288 pages (28 October, 1999) |
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Piccard and Jones provide a moving, witty and above all inspiring account, touching on all aspects of the flight, from technical details of their systems to the emotional stress that their time in the gondola brought about. The two pilots are clearly very different individuals, both in their beliefs and their own writing style; this only adds more depth to their story. It is increasingly hard to find examples of such heroic adventurism but the book quickly shows, to balloonists and non-balloonists alike, how formidable their achievement was. |
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Hugh Casson's Oxford |
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Paperback - 96 pages (August 1998) |
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An illustrated guide to the historic city of Oxford, by Sir Hugh Casson, architect and watercolourist, who records in words and pictures his personal impressions of the town. |
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The Thames |
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Paperback - 160 pages (11 March, 1999) |
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This is a collection of photographs following the course of the River Thames from Thames Head near Cirencester to the open sea, recording the river in all its moods and seasons. |
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Britain from the Air |
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Hardcover - 240 pages (18 March, 1993) |
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The landscape of the British Isles is one of the most diverse in the world. Within these islands there is everything from wild mountains, coasts and moorlands to gentle farmland, forests and meandering rivers. Imprinted over this diversity is a rich history, visible as much in the buildings as in the shape of the landscape itself. From prehistoric monuments like Stonehenge to the vast modern motorways which sweep across the land, Britain is marked indelibly by the works of man. |
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Historic Britain from the Air |
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Paperback - 160 pages (11 August , 1997) |
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A striking bird's-eye journey through the most cherished historic landmarks |
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The Earth from the Air |
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Hardcover - 416 pages (18 October, 1999) |
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French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and his devoted team have spent five years putting together this voluminous gallery, selecting 195 images from 100,000 photographs taken from helicopters in the skies over 75 countries. Almost every plate is double page, reproduced in sumptuous vibrant colour, with helpful fold-out notes for each shot. Huge African cotton bales become cauliflowers, logs floating down the Amazon are nothing more than matchsticks, the extraordinary contours of Turkey's Cappadocia are more like lunar scapes and South African sea-lions gathered to mate eerily echo an earlier crowd of curious humans in Côte D'Ivoire. |
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