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A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908 - 1918

Robert Wohl

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Description:The invention of the aeroplane was both the realization of an age-old human fantasy and a portent of a great new future. This elegantly written and exhilarating book — the first cultural history of the pioneering phase of aviation — tells the story of the ways in which powered flight captured the imagination of writers, artists, and intellectuals and helped to shape new visions of the world.Prize-winning historian Robert Wohl describes the colorful early aeronauts: the brilliant, taciturn Wilbur Wright, who arrived in France to demonstrate his invention to a skeptical audience and soon became their idol; Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian expatriate and dandy who delighted the Parisian public by landing his dirigible in front of his house on the Champs-Elysées; and Louis Blériot, the first man to fly across the English Channel. He then looks at responses to the development of the flying machine by such writers and artists as H. G. Wells, Emile Driant, Franz Kafka, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Edmond Rostand, E. T. Marinnetti, Vasily Kamensky, Kazimir Malevich, and Robert Delaunay, showing how the responses ranged from celebration of flight to dire warnings of its military implications. Finally he explores the creation of the flying ace, the knights-errant of the sky, analyzing how such men as Roland Garros, Oswald Boelcke, Manfred von Richtofen, and Georges Guynemer became famous, how they came to terms with their deadly pursuit, and how they were mythologized after their deaths. Generously illustrated with rare photographs, drawings, paintings, and posters, the book evokes an era of pride, power, and endless possibility, when the sky first became a new frontier.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908 - 1918. To get started finding A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908 - 1918, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The invention of the aeroplane was both the realization of an age-old human fantasy and a portent of a great new future. This elegantly written and exhilarating book — the first cultural history of the pioneering phase of aviation — tells the story of the ways in which powered flight captured the imagination of writers, artists, and intellectuals and helped to shape new visions of the world.Prize-winning historian Robert Wohl describes the colorful early aeronauts: the brilliant, taciturn Wilbur Wright, who arrived in France to demonstrate his invention to a skeptical audience and soon became their idol; Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian expatriate and dandy who delighted the Parisian public by landing his dirigible in front of his house on the Champs-Elysées; and Louis Blériot, the first man to fly across the English Channel. He then looks at responses to the development of the flying machine by such writers and artists as H. G. Wells, Emile Driant, Franz Kafka, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Edmond Rostand, E. T. Marinnetti, Vasily Kamensky, Kazimir Malevich, and Robert Delaunay, showing how the responses ranged from celebration of flight to dire warnings of its military implications. Finally he explores the creation of the flying ace, the knights-errant of the sky, analyzing how such men as Roland Garros, Oswald Boelcke, Manfred von Richtofen, and Georges Guynemer became famous, how they came to terms with their deadly pursuit, and how they were mythologized after their deaths. Generously illustrated with rare photographs, drawings, paintings, and posters, the book evokes an era of pride, power, and endless possibility, when the sky first became a new frontier.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908 - 1918. To get started finding A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908 - 1918, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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