eBook, 452 pages
English language
Published by Swervy Piglet Productions.
A Fire In The Sky
Or, the Fantastical History of James Sadler, as Related by Himself: How the Son of an Oxford Pastry-Cook became the First English Aeronaut
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A battered old green-and-gold shop sign creaks in the breeze. Tho. Sadler, Pastry-cook & Confectioner … & Son? Perish the thought! James Sadler’s ambitions transcend the mere vending of pastries and pies. Vowed never to plod in his father’s commonplace footsteps, a hasty but lucrative wager could raise James’s station to staggering heights—though a lifelong distaste for hard work has frustrated his previous schemes for advancement. Can James at last turn dreams into deeds, and become in the span of one month, the first English aeronaut? Can he escape the shop counter forever, defying the dreary hand dealt him by Fate? Will he forge a new path to fortune and fame, or disaster? And when the chance arises to truly step into another man’s shoes—will he take it?
“Excuse me if I have this incorrect. You say that you will ascend, and then descend.” “There will be some sideways motion, …
A battered old green-and-gold shop sign creaks in the breeze. Tho. Sadler, Pastry-cook & Confectioner … & Son? Perish the thought! James Sadler’s ambitions transcend the mere vending of pastries and pies. Vowed never to plod in his father’s commonplace footsteps, a hasty but lucrative wager could raise James’s station to staggering heights—though a lifelong distaste for hard work has frustrated his previous schemes for advancement. Can James at last turn dreams into deeds, and become in the span of one month, the first English aeronaut? Can he escape the shop counter forever, defying the dreary hand dealt him by Fate? Will he forge a new path to fortune and fame, or disaster? And when the chance arises to truly step into another man’s shoes—will he take it?
“Excuse me if I have this incorrect. You say that you will ascend, and then descend.” “There will be some sideways motion, also.” “And where will that motion take you?” “That, I cannot say. ’Tis the winds that decide the direction, not the aeronaut.” “That seems awfully silly. Why set out on a journey when you do not know where you’ll end up?”
A Fire in the Sky is a fantastical reimagining of the story of James Sadler, the laboratory assistant and shopkeeper’s son who at Oxford in 1784 made history’s first-ever flight by an English balloonist.