A drama in the airs

a drama in the airs is a Nouvelle of youth of Jules Verne taken again with the Hetzel editions in 1874 in the collection the Doctor OX.

At the time to leave for short strolls in balloon, an unknown precipitates in the nacelle of the character and obliges it to release ballast to rise higher and further what it discounted. The intruder benefits from the voyage to tell lengthily the history of the incidents connected to the epopee of lightest than the air.

This short text precedes already the novel more substantial than will be Five weeks in balloon.

Topics approached in the account

ballooning
the madness

List characters

Empédocle
Érostrate

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