The Flying Carpet: Adventures in a Biplane from Timbuktu to Everest and Beyond
Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that an adventure not in the air is obsolete,” Richard Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens in 1931 and fearlessly set out to circle the world in an open cockpit biplane optimistically named The Flying Carpet. For Halliburton, it was the ultimate in romantic, risky exploration and was a means of seeing the world in a way that few had ever seen it before. True to form, his journey was breathtakingly audacious. They performed aerobatics in Fez; landed in mysterious Timbuktu; spent time with the French Foreign Legion in Algeria; and explored Cairo, Damascus, and Petra. In India, they flew o…
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Weitere Autoren: Shah, Tahir (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-84885-914-2
- EAN: 9781848859142
- Produktnummer: 11419592
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.0 cm 249 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 249
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