- My Airships: The Story of My Life
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The delightful tale of "le petit Santos" as he dances through the sky above the City of Light at the dawn of the aerial age.
A note to the listener: Throughout this story the author makes several references to helpful figures and illustrations.
- Chapters
- Introductory Fable: The Reasoning of Children
- The Coffee Plantation
- Paris - Professional Balloonists - Automobiles
- My First Balloon Ascent
- My 'Brazil'
- The Real and Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning
- I Yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea
- My First Air-Ship Cruises
- How it Feels to Navigate the Air
- Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases
- I Go in for Airship Building
- The Exposition Summer
- The Deutsch Prize and its Problems
- A Fall Before a Rise
- The Building of My 'No. 6'
- Wining the Deutsche Prize
- A Glance Backward and Forward
- Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope
- Flights in Mediterranean Winds
- Speed
- An Accident and its Lessons
- The First of the World's Air-Ship Stations
- My 'No. 9,' the Little Runabout
- The Air-Ship in War
- Paris as a Centre of Air-Ship Experiments
- CONCLUDING FABLE: More Reasoning of Children