9780719557279 - First to Fly: The Unlikely Triumph of Wilbur and Orville Wright von Tobin, James (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy.

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1st UK Edition. This is the story of how the obscure but brilliant and determined Wilbur Wright, and his brother Orville, beat rich, powerful and sometimes unscrupulous rivals to become the first to fly. At the turn of the 20th century, as Wilbur Wright himself said, men by common consent adopted flight as the standard of impossibility. Intense, brilliant, determined, Wilbur and his brother Orville seized that challenge for their own. They were obscure bicycle makers from Ohio who went to a deserted Atlantic beach to devise the world's first aeroplane, and they faced keen competition from far more prominent men, equally driven to make history. First came Samuel Langley, head of the Smithsonian Institution, the odds-on favourite to fly first. Under intense public scrutiny, his ponderous aerodrome dropped into the icy Potomac River like a handful of mortar just nine days before the Wrights' unheralded first flight at Kitty Hawk. Yet the Wrights were so obscure they were all but ignored. So for six years they fought for recognition - flying a full circle before the disbelieving French, competing against Alexander Graham Bell, and finally against the motorcyclist Glenn Curtiss, fastest man in the world. In the final showdown with Curtiss in 1909, Wilbur Wright circled Manhattan above a million ecstatic spectators. The brothers' place in history was assured. Using his research in the rich archives of aviation, James Tobin pulls readers back to a time when flight seemed simultaneously crazy and tantalizing, drawing them along the Wrights' twisting path of trial, error and breakthrough. No one, Orville later remarked to Charles Lindbergh, quite understands the spirit of those times. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 430 pages; Description: vii, 430 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912) --Wright, Orville (1871-1948) --Aeronautics --United States --History 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First British edition. 430pp, illustrated with black and white photographs. Grey cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Grey endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket Mylar wrapped, price unclipped. 8vo. Evokes the spirit of the time when the idea of flight seemed simultaneously crazy and tantalising.

Hardcover/Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 448 pages (viii, 440) plus 16 half-tone plates, notes, index; publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles on the spine; grey pictorial dust-jacket. Very Good, no writing, mark-up, labels or other defacememts; unclipped jacket. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free. Heavy book - extra charges will be needed for shipment outside the UK (packed weight 1.1 kg).

Zustand: Very good.

Zustand: as new. London : John Murray, 2003. Hardcover. Dustjacket. vi,430 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780719557279. Keywords : ,