Ballooning > Publications > Books

• Balloon Publishing Company - Publisher of instructional books plus a new coffee table book and calendar.
  
   
• Liberty Balloon Company Bookstore - Large selection of ballooning books of all types with descriptions. Click on "Sales" for books.
  
   
• The Balloonist's Bookshelf - Descriptions of numerous how-to, coffee table, and children's ballooning books, many with cover photos.
  
   
• Ballooning Over 2000 - This european book expresses in images the magic and the charm of the world of balloons. 250 very colorful pictures in 176 pages with English text in 23 x 31 large format. It's a beautifull trip in different landscape, you'll enjoy photos from Switzerland to Turkey, Austria and Tunisia, New Mexico and Canada, Italy and Germany, France and Luxembourg, India and Burma.
  
   
• The Art of Ballooning - Packed with wonderful photographs and with an exciting layout, this full-format book stands out.
  
   
• The Joy of Ballooning - New book written by a contributing editor to Balloon Life magazine, offers a fascinating, behind-the-scenes view of the world of hot-air ballooning. More than 100 breathtaking color photographs of spectacular balloons in action.
  
   
• Ballon Bücherladen, The Balloon Book Store - Unusual collection of ballooning books. Some in English, French, or German.
  
   
• Balloon Builders Journal CD - The Balloon Builders Journal Compendium CD contains 374 pages of technical data for the amateur builder. The CD contains all issues of the Journal that was published between 1993 and 1998. Additional articles and opinion are added to the CD.
  
   
• Balloon, Zeppelin and Aviation Books At Valhalla - Balloon, Zeppelin, airship, aviation, space books and ephemera sales, collection development and consulting at Valhalla Enterprises. Specializes in old and antique books.
  
   
• Good Books - 4 - flight balloon group - Ballooning book reviews by a private balloon club based in the UK. A mix of training, history, and fun titles reviewed.
  
   
• Hot Air Balloon Books - List of books about hot air ballooning appropriate for kids used by a fourth grade program.
  
   
• Hot-Air Henry - A children's book about a siamese cat who stows away on a hot air balloon.
  
   
• How to Build Your Own Model Hot-Air Balloons - How to Build Your Own Model Hot-Air Balloons. Build models capable of flying miles and to heights approaching 1000 feet for a total cost little more than a dollar.
  
   
• Just Wind - New book explores two ballooning expeditions in the Stratosphere: Earthwinds and Lightheart. By Bill Armstrong, this is the author's website on the book.
  
   
• Just Wind: Chronicles of Two Balloon Pilots Under Pressure - JUST WIND, a book that takes readers behind the hangar door to recount the astonishing inside stories of two of the most dangerous and sophisticated long-distance ballooning voyages ever tried.
  
   
• The Dominion Of The Air - The story of aerial navigation by John Mackenzie Bacon. Complete online book, indexed by chapter covers lots of ballooning history up to about 1902. Detailed e-Book.
  
  
   
• Violet the Pilot - Nicely illustrated children's book by pilot/author Bettina Jenkins Bathe (illustrations by Barbara Fortin), follows its heroine on an adventure flying hot air balloons over France.