This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's sucessive progenitors
This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's sucessive progenitors
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"It's a book Leonardo da Vinci would have warmed to, a set of experiments he's have changed."--Paul West, "The Washington Post"
"What gives [McPhee's] writing its powerful fascination is the strange, raw quality of fact: it all really happened, just the way . . . McPhee watches so intently that the Aereon and its people become real and important to the reader."--John Skow, "Los Angeles Times"
"McPhee has a genius for writing about unusual people whose activities border on the eccentric, and the Aereon project abounded with them. His engrossing account can be read at a sitting."--Donald R. Morris, "The Houston Post"
"It's a book Leonardo da Vinci would have warmed to, a set of experiments he's have changed." --"Paul West, The Washington Post"
"What gives [McPhee's] writing its powerful fascination is the strange, raw quality of fact: it all really happened, just the way . . . McPhee watches so intently that the Aereon and its people become real and important to the reader." --"John Skow, Los Angeles Times"
"McPhee has a genius for writing about unusual people whose activities border on the eccentric, and the Aereon project abounded with them. His engrossing account can be read at a sitting." --"Donald R. Morris, The Houston Post"
It's a book Leonardo da Vinci would have warmed to, a set of experiments he's have changed. "Paul West, The Washington Post"
What gives [McPhee's] writing its powerful fascination is the strange, raw quality of fact: it all really happened, just the way . . . McPhee watches so intently that the Aereon and its people become real and important to the reader. "John Skow, Los Angeles Times"
McPhee has a genius for writing about unusual people whose activities border on the eccentric, and the Aereon project abounded with them. His engrossing account can be read at a sitting. "Donald R. Morris, The Houston Post""
"It's a book Leonardo da Vinci would have warmed to, a set of experiments he's have changed." --Paul West, The Washington Post
"What gives [McPhee's] writing its powerful fascination is the strange, raw quality of fact: it all really happened, just the way . . . McPhee watches so intently that the Aereon and its people become real and important to the reader." --John Skow, Los Angeles Times
"McPhee has a genius for writing about unusual people whose activities border on the eccentric, and the Aereon project abounded with them. His engrossing account can be read at a sitting." --Donald R. Morris, The Houston Post
John McPhee is the author of twenty-six books, including Annals of the Former World, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1965 and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First edition thus. Mass market paperback. Published NY: Ballantine, 1976, first printing. 16mo. wrappers. Non-fiction account of the development of an improbable flying machine. Some age toning to acid paper, faint hint of creasing at the cover folds, else fine. Size: 16mo. Seller Inventory # 003515
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