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Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War Hardcover - 2003
by Richard P. Hallion
The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Hallion, a distinguished international authority on aviation, offers a bold new examination of aircraft history, stressing its global roots. 150 illustrations.
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In the winter of 328 B.C., passing through the rugged mountains of Sogdiana, deep in Central Asia, Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army approached the Rock of Arimazes, an impregnable fortress looming over icy, treacherous perpendicular cliffs, accessible only by a steep and easily defended trail.
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- Title Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
- Author Richard P. Hallion
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 560
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date May 8, 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780195160352 / 0195160355
- Weight 3.02 lbs (1.37 kg)
- Dimensions 10.26 x 7.42 x 1.44 in (26.06 x 18.85 x 3.66 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Aeronautics - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002030821
- Dewey Decimal Code 629.130
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Citations
- Booklist, 04/01/2003, Page 1362
- Discover, 12/01/2003, Page 88
- Library Journal, 04/01/2003, Page 114
- New York Review of Books, 11/06/2003, Page 30
- Publishers Weekly, 05/15/2003, Page 0
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