Reviews

Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen, and Blasting Into Space by Richard Branson

sidetracked's review against another edition

5.0

Richard Branson takes us through the history of flight with a personal touch. All of the experience he accumulated either through his world-breaking adventures or his business endeavours in aviation guide the reader through the earliest and most rudimentary forms of flight up to the space age and beyond. It is a thrilling collection of stories about visionaries, inventors, dreamers, legends, men and women who through their sacrifices (sometimes even through their ultimate sacrifice) have defined the world we now live in by helping connect its most distant points.

A must read even if you read his autobiography (which would definitely help you remember some of his adventures described in this book as well)!

midwinter's review against another edition

5.0

Richard Branson takes us through the history of flight with a personal touch. All of the experience he accumulated either through his world-breaking adventures or his business endeavours in aviation guide the reader through the earliest and most rudimentary forms of flight up to the space age and beyond. It is a thrilling collection of stories about visionaries, inventors, dreamers, legends, men and women who through their sacrifices (sometimes even through their ultimate sacrifice) have defined the world we now live in by helping connect its most distant points.

A must read even if you read his autobiography (which would definitely help you remember some of his adventures described in this book as well)!