A Passion for Wings Aviation and the Western Imagination 1908-1918
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1994. Octavo, blue cloth, vii, 320 pp., illustrated. A fine copy in dust jacket. Prize-winning historian Robert Wohl describes the colourful early aeronauts: the brilliant and taciturn Wilbur Wright, who arrived in France to demonstrate his invention to a sceptical audience and soon became..... More
