[Ebook reader of The Duck with a Balloon]The Balloon-Hoax is the title of a newspaper article written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in April 1844. It recounted Monck Masons crossing of the Atlantic in a hot air balloon in just three days. . It was later revealed to be a hoax.SummaryThe story now known as Duck with the Balloon was first published in The Sun, a New York newspaper with the headline:AMAZING NEWSBY EXPRESS, VIA NORFOLK:THE ATLANTIC CROSSEDIN THREE DAYS!SIGNAL TRIUMPH OFTHE FLYING MACHINEMR. MONCK MASON!!!The article gives a detailed and plausible account of an airship journey by the famous aeronaut Monck Mason who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 65 hours. A diagram and documentation on the boat were also provided.Poe may have been inspired (at least in part) by an earlier journalistic hoax called the "Great Moon Hoax" and published in the same newspaper in 1835. The author of this hoax, Richard Adams Locke, was Poes publisher at the he time when The Duck in a Balloon was published.Poe had complained for about ten years that the “Great Moon Hoax” had plagiarized (through Locke) a story by Poe which had little success: Unparalleled Adventure of a certain Hans Pfaall .Poe felt that The Sun had made immense profits from his story without giving him a cent (Poes anger at The Sun was the subject of a column by Matthew Goodman called The Sun and the Moon)... (Audiobook)
Le Canard au Ballon
