Flight Patterns
A Century of Stories about Flying
Over the last century air travel has evolved from a high-risk experiment involving a few visionary pioneers to an efficient-and often irritating-means for distributing masses of people to the far reaches of the globe. During the hundred-year history of human air travel, it has yielded writing that is, by turns, heroic, dreamy, subversive, and utterly dire. This anthology traces this trajectory from the early letters and memoirs of Wilbur and Orville Wright, and Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, to the diaries of Amelia Earhart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery's heroism gives way to the darkly magical storytelling of Roald Dahl, and the spare, elegi…
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Weitere Autoren: Gaitskill, Mary / Sedaris, David / Dahl, Roald / Spears, Dorothy (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-890447-51-9
- EAN: 9781890447519
- Produktnummer: 4235261
- Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 550 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B13.9 cm x D4.0 cm 512 g
- Gewicht: 512
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