The Greatest Adventure by Piccard. Bertrand, and Jones. Brian,

Hard back book with colour pictorial dust jacket, 308 pages, illustrated with colour plates, 13 chapters, appendix of round the world attempts.

In this tense and often moving narrative, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, the pilots of the Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon, tell the remarkable story of their record-breaking round-the-world flight in March 1999, one of the great feats of human endurance.
By the time Piccard and Jones took off from Switzerland they had already had to overcome many problems, and the prospects of winning the race to be first round the world looked poor -  a rival balloon was days ahead of them. Yet in the end they made history. The flight was a triumph not only of technology but of the human spirit.