First English edition. Bright gilt spine lettering. Bit of bumping to spine ends. Size: 5 1/2" x 9". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. NOT ex-library.. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 022402096X. ISBN/EAN: 9780224020961. Inventory No: 001127.

Screenplay

Literature & Fiction

MacDonald Harris

Contemporary

JONATHAN CAPE.

'The Balloonist' is both an intense love story and a science fiction adventure. It is centred on an attempt by a Swedish scientist, an American journalist and a French speaking adventurer, to become the first people to set foot on the North Pole, to arrive there, and return, borne on the wind by a huge red and white balloon.

The Balloonist

Action & Adventure

AVON.

<p>It is July 1897, at the northernmost reach of the inhabited world. A Swedish scientist, an American journalist, and a young, French-speaking adventurer climb into a wicker gondola suspended beneath a huge, red-and-white balloon. The ropes are cut, the balloon rises, and the three begin their voyage: an attempt to become the first people to set foot on the North Pole, and return, borne on the wind. Philip Pullman says in his foreword: "Once I open any of MacDonald Harris’s novels I find it almost impossible not to turn and read on, so delightful is the sensation of a sharp intelligence at work. In The Balloonist , we see all of his qualities at their best."</p>

The Balloonist: A Novel

Humor & Satire

The Overlook Press

Genre Fiction

Galileo Publishers

<p>MacDonald Harris's only hitherto unpublished novel is set in the 1920s against a backdrop of airships, mysticism, erotic love and a Europe that is picking itself up after WWI. A giant airship has been acquired by Moira, the mystic and clairvoyant leader of a semi-religious cult. The captain is Georg von Plautus, a Prussian WWI Zeppelin commander who harbours a terrible secret from a bombing raid over London in 1916. Moira and her followers have embarked on an extraordinary voyage in this airship to a place that she calls Giaconda.</p>

The Carp Castle

Galileo Publishing

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