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 their idol; Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian expatriate and dandy who delighted the Parisian public by landing his dirigible in front of his house on the Champs-Elysées; and Louis Blériot, the first man to fly across the English Channel. Item #2087
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