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Chasing Icarus : the seventeen days in 1910 that forever changed American aviation / Gavin Mortimer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mortimer, Gavin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aeronautics--United States--History--20th century.
- Aeronautics.
- Flight--History--20th century.
- Flight.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Walker & Co, 2009.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 It's Europe or But 7
- Chapter 2 Let's Stick by the Ship 30
- Chapter 3 A Sort of Bleeding to Death 47
- Chapter 4 Will Launch Lifeboats and Trust to You 69
- Chapter 5 We Are in Bad Country and Grave Danger 82
- Chapter 6 Progress Slow and Exhausting 96
- Chapter 7 Wait Until Orville Comes 104
- Chapter 8 An Epoch-Making Event 114
- Chapter 9 Tears Started to Our Eyes 130
- Chapter 10 A Death Trap 139
- Chapter 11 Here Are Two Men in a Boat 157
- Chapter 12 Are You These Gentlemen? 171
- Chapter 13 There's Always a Chimney for a Man to Hang On To 185
- Chapter 14 I'll Be Able to Give the Wrights a Good Race 197
- Chapter 15 I'm Not Hurt Much but I Want a Long Rest 211
- Chapter 16 It Isn't True, It Can't Be True! 230
- Chapter 17 My Disgust at This Betrayal 242.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-291) and index.
- ISBN:
- 080271711X :
- 9780802717115
- OCLC:
- 259266814
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