Reaching for the Skies The Adventure of Flight
London: BBC Books, 1988. Quarto, brown cloth, gold gilt spine lettering, 288 pp., profusely illustrated in colour. Sticker patches on inner dust jacket top edged, light spotting on endpapers, otherwise a good copy. First Edition. Reaching for the Skies is a dramatic and entertaining story of many of the 20th century's most colourful adventurers. It shows how the aeroplane has developed from a Heath Robinson contraption of wooden struts and fabric into a machine of steel and aluminium that can circle the Earth in 100 minutes. Item #3183
Price (AUD): $50.00
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