The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot - Hardcover
Winner of the Caldecott Medal, this stunningly illustrated book depicts Louis Bleriot's historic first cross-Channel flight.
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-Factually accurate, yes-but also a witty pictorial reincarnation of Bleriot+s first experience of an airship. . . . There+s dash, style, and economy here in both text and pictures.+ -Kirkus Reviews
-Fact is turned into magic.+ -The New York Times Book Review
"Factually accurate, yes-but also a witty pictorial reincarnation of Bleriot's first experience of an airship . . . There's dash, style, and economy here in both text and pictures."--Kirkus Reviews "Fact is turned into magic."--The New York Times Book Review "This book...recounts the persistence of a Frenchman, Louis Bleriot, to build a flying machine to cross the English Channel.... The text is succinct, caption-like in its directness and brevity . . . The paintings...add the necessary texture and tone to this marriage. This is vintage Provensen"--School Library Journal
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-Fact is turned into magic.+ -The New York Times Book Review
"Factually accurate, yes-but also a witty pictorial reincarnation of Bleriot's first experience of an airship . . . There's dash, style, and economy here in both text and pictures."--Kirkus Reviews "Fact is turned into magic."--The New York Times Book Review "This book...recounts the persistence of a Frenchman, Louis Bleriot, to build a flying machine to cross the English Channel.... The text is succinct, caption-like in its directness and brevity . . . The paintings...add the necessary texture and tone to this marriage. This is vintage Provensen"--School Library Journal
A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel.
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- PublisherHutchinson
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0091543002
- ISBN 13 9780091543006
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
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THE GLORIOUS FLIGHT : Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot
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Hutchinson, London
(1983)
ISBN 10: 0091543002
ISBN 13: 9780091543006
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Author (illustrator). First Edition. HB, matte pictorial boards in pict DJ, 39pp, col illus. this is a new, unused copy with light shelf wear to DJ in the form of a sticker ghost to top fr cover, now protected. Tells the story of the first ever flight across the channel by Louis Bleriot, a family man who became caught by a dream. Size: Landscape 8vo. Seller Inventory # jen001845
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