10. Hot Air Balloons - When Humans Learned to Fly

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Telling Stories w/ Tom Thumb

Tom Thumb

11 episodes

1 month ago

Telling Stories is a podcast about stories and storytelling. In each podcast I take down a book from my shelf and tell you about it, the stories it contains and which other stories they relate to.
One week I'll be telling tales from Sufi poetry, the next anecdotes from the world of chess, then on to stories about sharks, the next week hot air balloons - there are stories everywhere...
I'm a writer and storyteller from England and I spent 20 years travelling the worldl and picked up a few tales along the way.
You can find my books and more storytelling at www.tomthumb.org

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10. Hot Air Balloons - When Humans Learned to Fly

Telling Stories w/ Tom Thumb

19 minutes

1 month ago

10. Hot Air Balloons - When Humans Learned to Fly

What was the point of science and Age of Enlightenment if it couldn't impress a few people along the way? Hundreds of thousands of people came to see the first hot air balloon flights though they were incredibly dangerous adventures that often ended in tragedy..
Drawing on stories from the wonderful book, The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes.

You can find more podcasts, stories and books from Tom Thumb on www.tomthumb.oeg
Tom Thumb is is the author of:
Hand to Mouth to India
Tales of a Road Junky
Somewhere Under the Rainbow
Science for Hippies

And also the podcasts:
Road Junky Travel Stories
Stories of Tom Thumb