FALLING UPWARDS: How We Took to the Air, by Richard Holmes. Pantheon, 404 pp., $35. "Show me a balloon and I'll show you a story; quite often a tall one," Richard Holmes tells us in "Falling Upwards." ...
This is the "falling" of the book's title. But the theme of "Falling Upward" is that this fall can, in fact, touch off a personal revelation and an inner revolution. Some people find their pain ...