Ballooning Handbook by Cameron. Don,

Hardback book with colour pictorial dust jacket, 174 pages, illustrated with colour and B/W plates, line drawings and maps,  8 chapters, appendices, index.

Don Cameron was often asked to recommend a single book covering the requirements for a Private Pilot's Licence for Balloons and when he realised there wasn't one, he wrote this handbook.

It discusses the fundamentals of hot-air ballooning, flying techniques( basic and advanced), balloon technology, navigation , meteorology and ballooning law.