Kniha Wings Tom D. Crouch

Wings

A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age

Autor: Tom D. Crouch
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Brožovaná
Vydavateľ: WW Norton & Co
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa
Odosielame za 9-15 dní
30.32
In a new era of global commerce, revolutionary technologies, and world war, the sheer exhileration o...

Informácie o knihe

Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydalo
2004
Stránok
738
EAN
9780393326208
ISBN
0393326209
Enbook ID
04877130
Vydavateľ
Hmotnosť
914
Rozmery
233 x 157 x 32

Kompletný popis

In a new era of global commerce, revolutionary technologies, and world war, the sheer exhileration of flight captured the imagination. Tom Crouch weaves the people, machines, and ideas of the air age into a compelling narrative. Yet the documentation of amateur enthusiasm in the face of practical reality and consequences does not simply offer a narrative of unalloyed progress. Moments of exhaltation are tempered by bitter disappointment and stark terror. Blind alleys are the price of technical progress. In the end, there is no more fascinating cast of characters than those who wrote the history in the sky. Theirs is an engaging story of realizing an extraordinary dream and riding it. TOM CROUCH is the author of the "sensitive and intelligent" (The Sunday Telegraph), "most readable, authoritative and balanced" (New Scientist), The Bishop's Boys (Norton). "Tom Crouch tells [the story] in huge detail and remarkably well" (The Guardian).

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