Volume 48, Number 20 · December 20, 2001
Racing with the Moon
By Gordon A. Craig
Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine: The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel
by Douglas Botting
Henry Holt, 331 pp., $27.50
In his time, the name of Dr. Hugo Eckener was as well known in the history of aviation as that of Charles Lindbergh. If this is no longer true, it is because the instrument of his fame, the Zeppelin, has disappeared from the skies and from the commercial and military airfleets of the world, and its accomplishments have faded from memory. Douglas Botting's fascinating and meticulously researched book explains why this happened, while at the same time giving his readers a detailed account of Eckener's greatest feat, the first circumnavigation of the globe by an airship carrying passengers.[*]
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