To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight - Paperback
by James Tobin
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Free PressISBN-13:9780743255363ISBN-10:743255364UPC:9780743255363Book Category:Transportation, Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Aviation, Science & Technology, United StatesBook Topic:History, 20th CenturySize:8.81 x 5.24 x 1.15 inchesWeight:1.2919Product ID:SCQ75Z6NFT
To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air. For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in obscurity, supported only by their exceptional...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Free PressISBN-13:9780743255363ISBN-10:743255364UPC:9780743255363Book Category:Transportation, Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Aviation, Science & Technology, United StatesBook Topic:History, 20th CenturySize:8.81 x 5.24 x 1.15 inchesWeight:1.2919Product ID:SCQ75Z6NFT
James Tobin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography for Ernie Pyle's War and the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight. Educated at the University of Michigan, where he earned a PhD in history, he teaches narrative nonfiction in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University in Oxford,...
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