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The Wright Brothers - The Dramatic Story Behind the Legend (Paperback)
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The Wright Brothers - The Dramatic Story Behind the Legend (Paperback)
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The incredible true story of the origin of human flight, by the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough. 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. In this thrilling book, 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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