To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight - Paperback

$18.99

To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight - Paperback

Name: To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight - Paperback
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SKU: 9780743255363
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by James Tobin

$18.99

Book Overview

James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air.

For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as Samuel Langley, armed with a contract from the US War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley saw flight as a problem of power, the Wrights saw a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different paths--Langley's toward oblivion, the Wrights' toward the heavens--though not before facing countless other obstacles. With a historian's accuracy and a novelist's eye, Tobin has captured an extraordinary moment in history. To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.

ISBN	9780743255363
Author	James Tobin
Publisher	Free Press
Genre	Biography, History, and Technology
Format	Paperback
Published	May 2004
Language	ENG- English
Pages	448
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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