SuitabookSky sailors
David Bristow
- Reading
- Pause around risk and exploration and ask how the book presents it.
- Themes
- Risk and exploration: Accounts include flights into storms, journeys over large bodies of water and attempts to reach deadly altitudes. The book recounts hazardous feats, but whether it questions or celebrates the risks is not established.
- Pioneers of flight: The book includes accounts of Sophie Blanchard and Dolly Shepherd alongside other ballooning pioneers. Women are among the people whose flying exploits are recounted; how their stories are framed is unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Some accounts involve serious danger: people flew into storms, reached deadly altitudes and sometimes died. Consider whether those real-life risks might be unsettling for your reader.