Crash-landed in North Carolina
19th September 2014
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a fictitious Boston imprint from 1777. Here’s something in the same vein, or so I first thought: a German novel from c.1789, written by Johann Wolfgang Andreas Schöpfel (1752–1827). Inspired by the craze for balloon travel that hit Europe and America in the 1780s, it opens with a balloon flight from Versailles which ends […]
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