The Balloon Travels of Robert Merry and His Young Friends: Over Various Countries in Europe (Classic Reprint) by Samuel G Goodrich (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from The Balloon Travels of Robert Merry and His Young Friends: Over Various Countries in Europe The purpose of this volume, is to entertain and instruct the reader by carrying him, in imagination, with a party of adventurers in a balloon, over the most interesting portions of Europe. The design of the writer is, in fact, to make every reader a party to the voyage, a companion of the various adventures, from the beginning to the end. Hence, he is permitted to listen to all that is said and done, and to participate in all that is seen and felt, throughout the expedition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.