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Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Hardcover - 2003
by Richard P. Age
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The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Hallion, a distinguished international authority on aviation, offers a bold new examination of aircraft history, stressing its global roots. 150 illustrations.
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- Title Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial
- Author Richard P. Age
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 560
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date May 8, 2003
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # AAL5~3/23/23
- ISBN 9780195160352
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In the winter of 328 B.C., passing through the rugged mountains of Sogdiana, deep in Central Asia, Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army approached the Rock of Arimazes, an impregnable fortress looming over icy, treacherous perpendicular cliffs, accessible only by a steep and easily defended trail.
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Citations
- Booklist, 04/01/2003, Page 1362
- Discover, 12/01/2003, Page 88
- Library Journal, 04/01/2003, Page 114
- New York Review of Books, 11/06/2003, Page 30
- Publishers Weekly, 05/15/2003, Page 0