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Darwin, The Botanic Garden, 1791
    Audoin Dollfuss, Pilâtre de Rozier, Association Francaise pour l’Avancement des Sciences, Paris, 1993
    Raymonde Fontaine, La Manche en Ballon, Paris, 1982
    The Gentleman’s Magazine - accounts of Lunardi’s ascents in 1784-85, and Sadler’s ascents in 1810-17
    Charles Gillispie, The Montgolfier Brothers, Princeton UP, 1983
    James Glaisher, with Camille Flammarion, Wilfred de Fonvielle and Gaston Tissandier, Travels in the Air, London, 1871
    Charles Green, The Flight of the Nassau Balloon, 1836
    Richard Hamblyn, The Invention of Clouds, Picador, 2001
    Georgette Heyer, Frederica (a novel containing an excellent account of a balloon ascent), E.P. Dutton, 1965
    J.E. Hodgson, History of Aeronautics in Great Britain, OUP, 1924
    Dr John Jeffries, Narrative of Two Aerial Voyages with M. Blanchard as Presented to the Royal Society, 1786
    Vincent Lunardi, My Aerial Voyages in England, 1785; and Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland, 1785
    Thomas Monck Mason, Aeronautica, 1838
    Thomas Mayhew, An Account of a Balloon Flight, 1855
    Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Great Balloon Hoax’ (story), New York Sun, 1847
    Gavin Pretor-Pinney, The Cloud Spotter’s Guide, Sceptre, 2006
    L.T.C. Rolt, The Aeronauts, Longman, 1966
    James Sadler, An Authentic Account of the Aerial Voyage, 1810
    James Sadler, Across the Irish Channel, 1812
    Windham Sadler, Aerostation, 1817
    Mrs Sage, A Letter by Mrs Sage, the First English Female Aerial Traveller, on Her Voyage in Lunardi’s Balloon, 1785, British Library catalogue 1417.g.24
    Gaston Tissandier, Histoire des Ballons et Aeronauts Célèbres 1783-1890, 2 vols, Paris, 1890
    Mungo Park
    William Feaver, The Paintings of John Martin, OUP, 1975. This includes a dramatic full-page colour reproduction of Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion (1812, Southampton Art Gallery)
    Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson, ‘Mental Travellers: Banks and African Exploration’, in Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era, CUP, 2004,
    The Gentleman’s Magazine, long review of ‘Mr Park’s Travels’, with illustrations from Rennell, August 1799
    Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, ‘A Negro Song’, 1799
    Lewis Gibbons, Niger and Mungo Park, 1934
    Stephen Gwynn, Mungo Park and the Quest for the Niger, 1932
    BH (anon), The Life of Mungo Park, 1835, British Library catalogue 615.a.12
    John Keats, ‘Nile Sonnets’, 1818
    Kenneth Lupton, Mungo Park, African Traveller, OUP, 1979
    Mungo Park, Journals, 2 vols, edited anonymously, including ‘A Journal of Park’s Last Voyage’, ‘A madi Fatoumi’s Journal’ and a Memoir by W. Wishaw, 1815
    Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior of Africa, 1799, 1860; Nonsuch, 2005
    Kira Salak, The Cruellest Journey: 6,000 Miles by Canoe to the Legendary City of Timbuktu, Bantam Books, 2005
    Anthony Sattin, The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu, HarperCollins, 2003
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor (poem), 1815; and ‘Nile Sonnets’, 1818
    Robert Southey, ‘Note on Mungo Park’, in Thalaba, 1803
    Alfred Tennyson, ‘Timbucto’ (poem), 1827
    Joseph Thomson, Mungo Park and the Niger, 1890
    Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America, 1825
    William Wordsworth, rejected passage on Mungo Park, from The Prelude, 1805
    Humphry Davy
    Thomas Beddoes and James Watt, Considerations on the Medical Use of Factitious Airs, J. Johnson, 1794, British Library catalogue B. Tracts. 489
    Henry Brougham, ‘Sir Humphry Davy’, in The Lives of the Philosophers in the Time of George III, London, 1855
    George I. Brown, Count Rumford: The Extraordinary Life of a Scientific Genius, Sutton, 1999
    Lord Byron, Don Juan (poem in 16 cantos), 1819-24
    F.F. Cartwright, The English Pioneers of Anaesthesia, Simpkin Marshall, 1952
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Collected Letters, edited by E.L. Griggs, vols 1-2, OUP
    Humphry Davy, Collected Works, edited by John Davy, 9 vols, 1839-40
    Humphry Davy, Fragmentary Remains, edited by John Davy,