Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
NY: Oxford Univ Pr, 2003. First. Hard Cover. First printing. 531 pps. with index. Illustarted with photographs and drawings. A bold examination of aviation history, streesing its global roots, making extensive use of extracts from journals, diaries and memoirs of the pioneers of flight. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET.