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Along with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a
brilliant future. Now we live, today, in our dreams of yesterday;
and, living in those dreams, we dream again...." -- From "The
Spirit of St. Louis"
Charles A. Lindbergh captured the world's attention -- and
changed the course of history -- when he completed his famous
nonstop flight from New York to Paris in 1927. In "The Spirit of
St. Louis, " Lindbergh takes the reader on an extraordinary
journey, bringing to life the thrill and peril of trans-Atlantic
travel in a single-engine plane. Eloquently told and sweeping in
its scope, Lindbergh's Pulitzer Prize-winning account is an epic
adventure tale for all time.
With remarkable detail, warmth, and accuracy, Charles A Lindbergh
-- aviator, author, scientist, and conservationist -- recalls the
boyhood experiences that led to his later life of international
fame and significant achievement. Lindbergh introduces readers to
the curly-haired boy and serious-minded youth who grew to manhood
from 1902 to 1920 on a farm along the banks of the upper
Mississippi River near Little Falls, Minnesota. There, long before
the Spirit of St. Louis and its celebrated flight, he learned the
country ways that nourished his love of the natural world and its
preservation, inspired his practical knowledge of working
machinery, and revealed the importance of careful observation and
perseverance. Lindbergh originally wrote the long letter that makes
up this book to guide the Minnesota Historical Society in restoring
the family house and farm (now the Charles A Lindbergh Historic
Site) in Charles A Lindbergh State Park, named for his father, a
colourful politician and U.S. congressman. More than fifty years
after the fact, Lindbergh was able to sketch a vivid picture of his
youth and the influences that helped to create one of the most
notable personages of the twentieth century. The narrative is
accompanied by illustrations that include letters exchanged between
Lindbergh and his father, entries from his boyhood diaries, and
photographs from his personal albums, which are now in the
collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. In her foreword,
Reeve Lindbergh describes a daughter's illuminating search for her
father's beginnings and the various forces that shaped a remarkable
man. A perceptive introduction by Brian Horrigan, a Lindbergh
scholar, discusses Lindbergh's own chronicling of his extraordinary
life.
Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth
anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moon The years that
have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins
piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done
nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching
the moon remains one of the great events--technical and
spiritual--of our lifetime. In Carrying the Fire, Collins conveys,
in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and humor of that
adventure. He also traces his development from his first flight
experiences in the Air Force, through his days as a test pilot, to
his Apollo 11 space walk, presenting an evocative picture of the
joys of flight as well as a new perspective on time, light, and
movement from someone who has seen the fragile earth from the other
side of the moon.
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In 1927, the year that Charles A Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic
Ocean, another revolution was happening on the ground. A group of
young archaeologists was forging an area of study centered on the
ancient Southwest. Aviation and archaeology merged when Alfred V.
Kidder, of the Carnegie Institution, hired Lindbergh to photograph
the sites from an airplane. Lindbergh's aerial survey of the Four
Corners and Upper Rio Grande, made with Anne Morrow Lindbergh at
the controls and, possibly, photographing some of the sites, were
the first low-angle views of the vast, interconnected ancient
landscape. The Lindbergh documentation of the sites remains a
valuable historic record of the northern Southwest plateau. Ninety
years later, noted aerial photographer Adriel Heisey has been
commissioned by Archaeology Southwest, an organization dedicated to
preservation archaeology, to re-photograph the ancient sites
exactly as Lindbergh did. The juxtaposition of thirty
black-and-white remastered Lindbergh images and thirty contemporary
color images, provides a fascinating survey of the area over nearly
a century allowing a unique view of the multi-layered, cultural
landscape of the American Southwest over time.
This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.
Full Title: "Impeachment of Federal Reserve Board"Description: "The
Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926" collection provides
descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official
trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials,
briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational
trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with
key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including
the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey"
trial."Trials" provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the
trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an
unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class,
marriage and divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++MonographNew York City BarWashington:
Government Printing Office. 1917
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
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