Author(s): Long, David (Author),
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 26/09/2024,
Pagination: 208 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Faber & Faber,
Published By: FABER & FABER ,
Book Classification: People & places (Children's/YA)
Dimensions: 312 x 241 x 21mm
Weight: 1178g
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780571374793

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From a hot air balloon to holidays on the moon, award-winning David Long captures the astonishing true stories of advances in aviation. From the Wright Brothers' twelve seconds aloft to the Moon landings less than a lifetime later, the story of aviation is not just a series of astonishing advances made at breathtaking speed. It's also about the courage and ingenuity of the men and women who made such rapid progress possible; about the romance of soaring above the clouds; and perhaps most of all about the exciting and exhilarating realisation of a dream which is literally centuries old.