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Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial
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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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Good. Signed and inscribed by author on the fly page. Dust cover has shelf wear to the edges and corners. Cover has some light usage wear. Inside cover has some light foxspotting. Page edges have some usage stains. Pages are clean and free of notations and highlights.
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Details

  • 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

First line

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

About the author

Author of numerous award-winning books and formerly the Air Force Historian, Richard Hallion teaches widely at American and foreign universities and defense colleges. He has gained flying experience as a mission observer in a wide range of civil and military aircraft, served as a NASA historian, and in 1974, joined the Smithsonian Institution as one of the founding curators of the National Air and Space Museum.