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Chasing Icarus the seventeen days in 1910 that forever changed American aviation

Title
Chasing Icarus the seventeen days in 1910 that forever changed American aviation / Gavin Mortimer.
Author
Mortimer, Gavin.
Publication
New York : Walker & Co./St Martin's Press, 2010.

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Description
305 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., plan; 21 cm.
Summary
By 1910, America and the world had been transfixed by the danger and challenge of mastering the air. "Chasing Icarus" captures both a pivotal moment in the history of aviation and the end of a gilded era that would soon be devastated by World War I. 24 b&w photographs.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-291) and index.
Call Number
JSD 13-21
ISBN
  • 9780802719935 (pbk.)
  • 0802719937 (pbk.)
OCLC
462908290
Author
Mortimer, Gavin.
Title
Chasing Icarus the seventeen days in 1910 that forever changed American aviation / Gavin Mortimer.
Imprint
New York : Walker & Co./St Martin's Press, 2010.
Edition
Pbk. ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-291) and index.
Added Author
Mortimer, Gavin
Research Call Number
JSD 13-21
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