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America from the air : an aviator's story / Wolfgang Langewiesche ; edited and introduced by Drake Hokanson and Carol Kratz ; with a foreword by William Langewiesche.

Title: America from the air : an aviator's story / Wolfgang Langewiesche ; edited and introduced by Drake Hokanson and Carol Kratz ; with a foreword by William Langewiesche.
Author: Langewiesche, Wolfgang, 1907-
Publication: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

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Description

xxviii, 209 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"In the early 1930s, Wolfgang Langewiesche, a German-born graduate student at the University of Chicago, learned to fly. He took to the air with the same passion Americans had taken to the road a decade earlier, writing a series of acclaimed books that described the heady excitement of flight in this era and the stunning views of his adopted country from an entirely new vantage point - the sky. America from the Air brings selections from two of these classic accounts - I'll Take the High Road, first published in 1939, and A Flier's World, his 1951 memoir - to provide a distinctive look at the American landscape before the construction of multilane expressways, suburban tract housing, and strip malls. With a photographer's eye and a rare talent for conveying the physical sensation of flying, Langewiesche describes small farms, deserted seashores, busy railway lines, and cities in which skyscrapers were still engineering marvels, evoking an irrecoverable part of America's past."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

American land classics

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American land classics.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies
Aerial photographs
Pictorial works

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committed to retain

Contents

Aerial beachcomber -- The mysterious factor x -- Dead reckoning -- A living in the air -- Knapsack of salvation -- First time in earnest -- Flying team -- Pilot's-eye view -- Neurosis in miniature -- The poor man's airplane -- You must beware of Hatteras -- Key West with lady -- Adventure in the forest -- My kind of flying -- American air.

ISBN

0801878187 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801878195 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003013849

OCLC

52514314
SCSB-12707116

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Harvard Library