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Flying Adventurers

Author : David K. Vaughan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476688787

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Flying Adventurers by David K. Vaughan Pdf

Aviation books were a unique and prolific subgenre of American juvenile literature from the early to mid-20th century, drawing upon the nation's intensifying interest. The first books of this type, Harry L. Sayler's series Airship Boys, appeared shortly after the Wright brothers' first successful flight in 1909. Following Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic, popular series like Ted Scott and Andy Lane established the "golden age" of juvenile aviation literature. This work examines the 375 juvenile aviation series titles published between 1909 and 1964. It weaves together several thematic threads, including the placement of aviation narratives within the context of major historical events, the technical accuracy in depictions of flying machines and the ways in which characters reflected the culture of their eras. Three appendices provide publication data for each series, a list of referenced aircraft and an annotated bibliography; there is a full index.

Last Flight

Author : Amelia Earhart
Publisher : Crown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307715937

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Last Flight by Amelia Earhart Pdf

Amelia Earhart's account of her ill-fated last flight around the world, begun in 1937, remains one of the most moving and absorbing adventure stories of all time. Last Flight compiles the letters, diary entries and charts that she sent to her husband, G.P. Putnam at each stage of her trip. In her own words, these dispatches offer a window into her experience on this ground-breaking journey and illustrate her cheerful, charming nature. Her story continues to intrigue and inspire people to this day.

Captain Arsenio: Inventions and (Mis)adventures in Flight

Author : Pablo Bernasconi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547562063

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Captain Arsenio: Inventions and (Mis)adventures in Flight by Pablo Bernasconi Pdf

Captain Arsenio was a curious man who liked, more than anything, to tinker and explore. One day in 1782, he decided that he would put his unusual skills to work in a most ambitious way: he would build a flying machine. Despite a hodgepodge of materials (and a total unawareness of the laws of physics), Captain Arsenio aimed to get his feet off the ground and his head in the clouds—temporarily, at least. But would any of his crazy inventions ever achieve flight? In this hilarious fictional account, Pablo Bernasconi imagines a legend in the making—a retired cheesemaker and scuba diver turned inventor who sets off to fly with the birds, in spite of himself.

Flying the Alaska Wild

Author : Mort D. Mason
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 0896585891

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Flying the Alaska Wild by Mort D. Mason Pdf

Imagine flying through wildly unpredictable weather conditions and over the unforgiving terrain of the Big Empty, with only yourself to rely on in life and death situations. This type of true grit adventure was a common occurrence for Alaska bush pilot Mort Mason, who encountered numerous white-knuckle situations while honing his skill--and his luck--in a profession that only a handful of pilots have had the stamina to endure. Flying the Alaska Wild is a heart-pounding, edge-of-the-chair collection of fascinating stories about the rough-and-tumble life of an Alaska bush pilot--straight from the pilot’s seat. Recounting thirty years of adventures, skilled storyteller Mason presents tales of his own experiences, and also tells the legendary stories of other old-time bush pilots.

One Adventure After Another

Author : John Lewis,Edna Lewis
Publisher : Author House
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781481730426

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One Adventure After Another by John Lewis,Edna Lewis Pdf

This book is not about heroes like military pilots who risk their lives protecting our country, or commercial pilots who wing their way across the world transporting us from one place to the other or general pilots who daily perform tasks that can only be done from the air. We owe all of these pilots a great respect and gratitude for the job that they do. Most of the books written are about them. This book is about the private pilot who is the average man or woman who does not intend to risk their lives flying an airplane. This book is about those people who simply want to take to the air for the joy of being airborne and for the intellectual challenge of keeping up with the birds. If I thought for a moment that flying was not safe, I would not step into an airplane. For years I felt that flying was for the foolhardy until by chance I discovered that flying is safer than driving a car if you learn how to fly and follow the rules. This book attempts to describe the transition from becoming a land person to becoming an air person and the pleasures experienced on the way. John O. Lewis My first adventure with John as an airplane pilot gave me the surprise of my life. After vehemently refusing to go flying with him, I agreed once and for all to join him in the cockpit for a brief tour around Chicago. Once airborne my imagined fears were replaced by sheer joy of seeing the sights and realizing the wonders both above and below. This initial flight was the beginning of adventures of our lifetime. Never again was any coaxing on his part needed for me to join him on flights. Edna M. Lewis

The Flying Carpet

Author : Richard Halliburton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789124026

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The Flying Carpet by Richard Halliburton Pdf

THEY FLEW THROUGH THE AIR WITH GREATEST OF EASE Richard Halliburton can be counted on to lead his readers into strange places, into hilarious difficulties, into new appreciations of history and romance—and never to qualify his outrageous philosophy of reckless living with a single sober moral. The Flying Carpet is his latest, his most modern book—in which he takes us around the world by airplane. Timbuctoo, because it was far away and mysterious, was his first destination. From there, the author and his pilot-companion, Moye Stephens, follow a “royal road to romance” through the sky, dropping down on Fez, Morocco and the French Foreign Legion, The Holy Land, Galilee, Baghdad in mysterious Arabia, Persia, and India; flying over the world’s highest mountain, Mt. Everest, investigating Singapore, speeding to Borneo to visit the white Ranee whose husband rules half a million head hunters, and ending in Manila, making airplane records, enjoying unprecedented thrilling experiences, flying into remote places where airplanes had never been heard of before. These enviable adventures are told gaily and dramatically. Their footloose spirit, as free as the air through which the Flying Carpet sailed, will prove fatal to the contentment of those readers who have not yet achieved the realization of their own travel dreams.

Flying Adventurers

Author : David K. Vaughan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476648774

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Flying Adventurers by David K. Vaughan Pdf

Aviation books were a unique and prolific subgenre of American juvenile literature from the early to mid-20th century, drawing upon the nation's intensifying interest. The first books of this type, Harry L. Sayler's series Airship Boys, appeared shortly after the Wright brothers' first successful flight in 1909. Following Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic, popular series like Ted Scott and Andy Lane established the "golden age" of juvenile aviation literature. This work examines the 375 juvenile aviation series titles published between 1909 and 1964. It weaves together several thematic threads, including the placement of aviation narratives within the context of major historical events, the technical accuracy in depictions of flying machines and the ways in which characters reflected the culture of their eras. Three appendices provide publication data for each series, a list of referenced aircraft and an annotated bibliography; there is a full index.

Flight Maps:adventures With Nature In Modern America

Author : Jennifer Jaye Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024215217

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Flight Maps:adventures With Nature In Modern America by Jennifer Jaye Price Pdf

A quirky, brilliant debut book that explores the evolution of our relationship to nature and the ways in which we attach meaning to it today. "Flight Maps" should find its place on any bookshelf with the likes of David Quammen and John McPhee.

Piano Adventures - Level 3B

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781616773731

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Piano Adventures - Level 3B by Anonim Pdf

(Faber Piano Adventures ). The Popular Repertoire Book provides popular hits paired with imaginative activity pages that explore rhythm, note reading, and theory basics. Contents: Angel Eyes * Honky Cat * I Believe I Can Fly * I Got Rhythm * I'll Be There fro You * Inspector Gadget (Main Theme) * Jeopardy Theme * The Rose * Sunrise, Sunset.

One Adventure After Another

Author : John and Edna Lewis
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781481730402

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One Adventure After Another by John and Edna Lewis Pdf

This book is not about heroes like military pilots who risk their lives protecting our country, or commercial pilots who wing their way across the world transporting us from one place to the other or general pilots who daily perform tasks that can only be done from the air. We owe all of these pilots a great respect and gratitude for the job that they do. Most of the books written are about them. This book is about the private pilot who is the average man or woman who does not intend to risk their lives flying an airplane. This book is about those people who simply want to take to the air for the joy of being airborne and for the intellectual challenge of keeping up with the birds. If I thought for a moment that flying was not safe, I would not step into an airplane. For years I felt that flying was for the foolhardy until by chance I discovered that flying is safer than driving a car if you learn how to fly and follow the rules. This book attempts to describe the transition from becoming a land person to becoming an air person and the pleasures experienced on the way. -John O. Lewis My first adventure with John as an airplane pilot gave me the surprise of my life. After vehemently refusing to go flying with him, I agreed once and for all to join him in the cockpit for a brief tour around Chicago. Once airborne my imagined fears were replaced by sheer joy of seeing the sights and realizing the wonders both above and below. This initial flight was the beginning of adventures of our lifetime. Never again was any coaxing on his part needed for me to join him on flights. -Edna M. Lewis

The New Adventures of the Human Fly

Author : Michael Aushenker,Al Milgrom,Steve Leialoha,Don Perlin,Jim Rugg
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1493615750

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The New Adventures of the Human Fly by Michael Aushenker,Al Milgrom,Steve Leialoha,Don Perlin,Jim Rugg Pdf

Brand new adventures of the Human Fly, based on the real-life stuntman, superhero and rock star extraordinaire, featuring artists Bob Layton ("The Invincible Iron Man"), Steve Leialoha ("Fables"), Don Perlin ("Werewolf by Night," co-creator of "Moon Knight") and Al Milgrom ("ROM: Spaceknight") from the Fly's original 1970s comic book series. Contributors also include iconic '70s/'80s artist Gerry Talaoc ("Unknown Soldier," "The Incredible Hulk"), Steven Butler ("Web of Spider-Man," "Sonic the Hedgehog"), hot alternative comic book creator Jim Rugg ("Afrodisiac"), legendary letterer Janice Chiang, Rafael Navarro ("Sonambulo," "Guns A Blazin'"), Javier Herandez ("El Muerto, Aztec Zombie"), screenwriter of the upcoming "Human Fly" movie Tony Babinski, Jason Baroody, Paul Mason and Kathryn Renta. Edited by and featuring the contributions of cartoonist Michael Aushenker (the "El Gato, Crime Mangler" series, "Cartoon Flophouse"). Among the stories in this first issue:"Lights, Camera, Die Fly Fie!:" mayhem ensues when the Human Fly and his cronies try to film a children's television show. "Fly vs. Fly" ~ While the Human Fly is performing in Mexico, he must go up against a serial killer who may be...the Human Fly? "Other Worlds, Other Dimensions" ~ Dr. Syringe, a time-traveling super villain from the future, drags our hero into a nightmarish tech world where the Fly must rescue an attractive scientist from a slew of video game baddies. "Click" ~ The Human Fly is on a mission to infiltrate a fortified compound...but what could possibly be worth risking life and limb against an evil paramilitary super-army? Fun from cover to cover, with front cover art by Rafael Navarro, Steve Butler and Janice Chiang, and painted back cover art by Michael Aushenker.

The High Flying Adventures of Aaron the Airplane!

Author : Michael P. Yourchisin
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781662446160

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The High Flying Adventures of Aaron the Airplane! by Michael P. Yourchisin Pdf

The High Flying Adventures of Aaron the Airplane! is a children’s bedtime story with interchangeable parts to personalize your child’s interests and activities into the storyline.

Flying Was My Destiny

Author : Marion Reamy
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781449767372

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Flying Was My Destiny by Marion Reamy Pdf

Hans Vandervlugt was a flying marvel from day one, when as a youth he began flying in Holland. Driven by his passion to fly, a learning ability beyond the norm took him through the Dutch Aeronautical College. He was then inducted into the Royal Dutch Military for pilot training, where he became an officer. This biography gives us an understanding of this extraordinary pilot, Hans Vandervlugt, and what it means to seek something beyond the ordinary. Hans had grit, boundless energy, and the fortitude that enabled him to take a direct route to a flying career. This amazing true-life story will fly you to faraway countries and exotic places with Hans.

The Flying Carpet

Author : Richard Halliburton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857720771

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The Flying Carpet by Richard Halliburton Pdf

"I've just given myself an airplane and I want you to fly us to all the outlandish places in the world, Turkey, Persia, Paris and - Pasadena. We're going to fly across deserts, over mountains, rescue imprisoned princesses and fight dragons. We must have the world. We can have the world!" 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 Iran, they met legendary aviatrix Ella Beinhorn and gave Princess Mahin Banu a ride. In Iraq, it was the turn of King Faisal's young son, Ghazi, who was escorted by two RAF fighter planes. In India, they flew over the Taj Mahal - upside down - and, soaring over the Himalayas, Halliburton took the first aerial photograph of Everest. In Borneo they were entertained by Sylvia Brooke, the 'White Queen of Borneo', and by the chief of the Iban Dyak headhunters, who gave them dozens of shrunken heads. A journey as dazzling as Halliburton himself and, with the world at war less than a decade later, marking the end of an era, the story of The Flying Carpet is as captivating today as it was to the world 80 years ago.

Amelia Earhart

Author : Ann Carroll
Publisher : Adventurers
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781998426

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Amelia Earhart by Ann Carroll Pdf

Nothing was more exciting than flying in the early days of aviation!It was a matter of life and death and Amelia Earhart loved the challenge. There was always another air-race, another plane to test, another record to set.She was the greatest woman pilot ever.Then she took one flight too many . . .