The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed - Hardcover

McPhee, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374137811 ISBN 13: 9780374137816

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1973

Synopsis

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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Review:

"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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0374137811
• ISBN 13: 9780374137816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184