| page | ||
| Introductory Fable | 1 | |
| chapter | ||
| I. | The Coffee Plantation | 10 |
| II. | Paris—Professional Balloonists—Automobiles | 24 |
| III. | My First Balloon Ascent | 33 |
| IV. | My "Brazil"—Smallest of Spherical Balloons | 42 |
| V. | The Real and the Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning | 51 |
| VI. | I Yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea | 63 |
| VII. | My First Air-Ship Cruises (1898) | 74 |
| VIII. | How It Feels to Navigate the Air | 82 |
| IX. | Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases | 100 |
| X. | I Go in for Air-Ship Building | 114 |
| XI. | The Exposition Summer | 133 |
| XII. | The Deutsch Prize and its Problems | 153 |
| XIII. | A Fall Before a Rise | 164 |
| XIV. | The Building of My "No. 6" | 180 |
| XV. | Winning the Deutsch Prize | 190 |
| XVI. | A Glance Backward and Forward | 205 |
| XVII. | Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope | 217 |
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