Into the Blue: American Writing on Aviation and Spaceflight

Into the Blue: American Writing on Aviation and Spaceflight
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Publisher : Library of America
Total Pages : 1018
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ISBN-10 : 9781598531855
ISBN-13 : 1598531859
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Book Synopsis Into the Blue: American Writing on Aviation and Spaceflight by : Joseph J. Corn

Download or read book Into the Blue: American Writing on Aviation and Spaceflight written by Joseph J. Corn and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Blue revisits the remarkable trajectory of Americans in air and space, gathering sixty of the best eyewitness and participant narratives from Benjamin Franklin's letters on the first hot air balloons to Chris Jones's account of being marooned on the International Space Station. Here are those who made flight happen: Orville and Wilbur Wright, self-taught pioneers whose homespun invention stunned the world; World War I ace Eddie Rickenbacker, whose memoirs (excerpted here for the first time in unedited form) describe the frightening novelties of aerial combat; and daredevils like Texas barnstormer Slats Rodgers and test pilot Jimmy Collins. Ernest Hemingway offers a vivid dispatch on a 1922 flight over France, and Gertrude Stein muses on the look of America from the air; Charles A. Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart narrate their groundbreaking transatlantic flights; Ralph Ellison reflects on the experience of African American airmen at Tuskegee; William F. Buckley Jr. recounts his mishaps as an amateur pilot; Wernher von Braun envisions a space station of the future, while astronauts John Glenn, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin provide firsthand recollections of the conquest of space. Here too, among many other subjects, are scenes and episodes in the development of commercial aviation, from the hiring of the first stewardesses and the high stress lives of air traffic controllers to the new ubiquity of what Walter Kirn calls "Airworld." A thirty-two-page insert offers photographs, some previously unpublished, of the writers and their crafts.


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