Volume 50, Number 17 · November 6, 2003
Tumult in the Clouds
By Roger Shattuck
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW
Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention
by Peter L. Jakab
Smithsonian Institution,262 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War
by Richard P. Hallion
Oxford University Press, 531 pp., $35.00
To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
by James Tobin
Free Press, 430 pp., $28.00
Progress in Flying Machines
by Octave Chanute
Dover, 308 pp., $10.95 (paper)
Les Avions de la Grande Galerie
Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace
Aéroport du Bourget, 80 pp., E7.65
The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age
by Tom D. Crouch and Peter L. Jakab
Smithsonian/National Geographic, 240 pp., $35.00
First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane
by T.A. Heppenheimer
Wiley, 394 pp., $30.00
The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright
edited by Peter L. Jakab and Rick Young
Smithsonian Institution, 316 pp., $49.95
How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History
by Orville Wright, edited by Fred C. Kelly
Dover, 87 pp., $9.95
Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight
by Paul Hoffman
Theia, 369 pp., $24.95
Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane
by Seth Shulman
HarperCollins, 258 pp., $25.95
Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight
by William Langewiesche
Pantheon, 240 pp., $24.00
No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport
by Joshua Cooper Ramo
Simon and Schuster, 273 pp., $24.00
North Star over My Shoulder: A Flying Life
by Bob Buck
Simon and Schuster, 446 pp., $26.00
Once in a faraway land bounded on all sides by a treacherous river, the King became unusually restless. He was sure that the pastures and the savannas on the other side of the river were more fertile than his. But no one knew how to cross those turbulent waters. The King decreed a great reward of cattle and sheep to be reserved for whoever devised a way to cross the river.
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