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The Wright Brothers - The Dramatic Story Behind The Legend (Paperback, Export)
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The Wright Brothers - The Dramatic Story Behind The Legend (Paperback, Export)
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On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two
unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the
world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had
begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a
pilot. Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what
they did? David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize,
tells the surprising, profoundly human story of Wilbur and Orville
Wright. Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle
mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of
exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging
intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they
attributed to their upbringing. The house they lived in had no
electricity or indoor plumbing, but there were books aplenty,
supplied mainly by their preacher father, who encouraged their
studying. As individuals they had differing skill sets and passions
but as a team they excelled in any given task . That they had no
more than a public high school education, little money and no
patron to open doors to their desires, never stopped them in their
goal to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident
reality that every time they took off in one of their contrivances,
they risked being killed, or, at the very least, maimed. In this
thrilling book, master historian David McCullough draws on the
immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries,
notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from
private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright
Brothers' story, including the little-known contributions of their
sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone
differently for them.
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