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To Conquer the Air : The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
by Tobin, James
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Fome/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684856883
- ISBN 13
- 9780684856889
- Seller
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post falls, Idaho, United States
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About This Item
U S. A.: Free Press, 2003. 430pp including index A hero's tale of overcoming obstacles Photographs Remainder mark on bottom. First Edition. Hardcover. Fome/Fine.
Synopsis
Ron Powers Co-author of Flags of Our Fathers What The Metaphysical Club was to the development of philosophic thought in America, this beautiful book is to the development of man in flight. Far more than a mere account of the Wright brothers' triumph, To Conquer the Air is a yeasty, richly drawn evocation of an era and of the strange, visionary, obsessed, and difficult men who battled one another to claim it in their name.
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- Bookseller
- First Choice Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 97610
- Title
- To Conquer the Air : The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
- Author
- Tobin, James
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fome
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684856883
- ISBN 13
- 9780684856889
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- U S. A.
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 Aeronautics-United States-History-20th Century Flight-History-20th Century
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation;
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