Three Hundred Leagues Over the Earth
by Merritt Ierley

Name: Three Hundred Leagues Over the Earth
Brand: Merritt Ierley
SKU: 9780573701801

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75 mins19th CenturyReduced Casting (Doubling Possible)Period Costumes

Synopsis

Before long-distance travel by air was even a dream for most people, the airship Atlantic made an astounding attempt at a transatlantic voyage.

This Jules Vernesque account of an actual1859 balloon flight features four "aeronauts"—a scientist, an adventurer, a newspaper reporter, and a financier—on an overnight journey through storm and uncertainty.

They fall—literally—far short of their goal, but they set a record for long-distance flight that lasted until after the Wright brothers and showed that travel by air was as feasible as travel on the ground.

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Winkleman Neighbor	—	—	Neighbor
Fireman Three Nonspeaking	—	—	Nonspeaking
Young Wise John, age 14	—	—	John, age 14
John Wise Aeronaut	—	—	Aeronaut
Johanna Wife of John Wise	female	—	Wife of John Wise
William Hyde Newspaper reporter	—	—	Newspaper reporter
O.A. Gager Passenger on the Atlantic	—	—	Passenger on the Atlantic
John Lamont Aeronaut, age 29	—	—	Aeronaut, age 29
Voices In Crowd Prologue	—	—	Prologue