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Description
This is a amazing book - magnificently illustrated with paintings, photographs, advertising and propaganda posters - that shows the wonderful world of aviation from the beginning to the late 1980's.
Caractéristiques
| Format | 29 x 25 x 3 cm |
| Nbr. de pages | 288 |
| Finition | Cartonné |
| Particularités | Jaquette |
| Année d’édition | 1987 |
| Langue | Anglais |
| Etat du livre | Neuf |
| Auteur | Walter J. Boyne |
| Editeur | Orion Books ( New York ) |
Description
The author, former director of the National Air and Space Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution have produced this masterfully written and beautifully illustrated single - volume history of flight, a loving tribute to eight decades of aircraft and the men and women who designed, built, and flew them. The book chronicles the rapid evolution of aviation technology, from the Wright Flier of 1903 to Paul MacCready's Gossamer Condor, from the first balloons and gliders to the Concorde, and most of all focuses on the meaning of flight for the human spirit - the inventiveness, the craftsmanship, the daring achievements, the adventure.Using hundreds of historical pictures, as well as specially commissioned photography and art from the National Air and Space Museum, The Smithsonian Book of Flight marries text and imagery to create an overwhelming experience, an authentic evocation of the romance of flight and the ingenuity, camaraderie, and pride of the sponsors, builders, and pilots who carried through this global revolution in transportation and communicationb. The book contains the best collection of flight images ever included in a single volume of this scope.
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