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America from the Air: An Aviator's Story (Ameri, Langewiesche+=
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- 2004-04-01
- ISBN
- 9780801878190
- EAN
- 9780801878190
- Subject Area
- Photography, Travel, Architecture
- Publication Name
- America from the Air : an Aviator's Story
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Subject
- Landscape, United States / General, Subjects & Themes / Aerial
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Series
- American Land Classics Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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'I am no helmeted, begoggled hero of the skies; picture me bookish, bespectacled, unable to hold even a teacup without rattling it. As a pilot, I am merely an amateur, and I know it.... I shouldn't be talking. But I can't help talking. For you take the air: the thin, substanceless air that can be made to bear a man; you take America; and you take an airplane, which of all the works of man is the nearest to a living being -- you take those things and mix them up, and they will act as a drug which will knock all proper reticence right out of you. And so, here I go talking...' -- from America from the AirIn 1927, Charles Lindbergh made his historic solo flight across the Atlantic; Amelia Earhart became the first woman to do so in 1932. And so was born the golden age of flying. Aviators became the era's new heroes and the airplane its icon. In early 1930s Chicago, a German-born graduate student became fascinated by the airplane and its usefulness as a great geographic and sociological tool. Wolfgang Langewiesche sold his car and used his meager salary to pay for flying lessons at 25 cents a minute.With the same passion America had taken to the road a decade earlier, Langewiesche took to the air. He eagerly inhaled the landscape and breathed observations about the country, writing a series of books that describe the heady excitement and freedom of flight and the stunning views of his adopted country from an entirely new vantage point -- the sky. This new edited volume revives the writings from two of his now out-of-print books. America from the Air draws from Langewiesche's classic account of his early experiences as a pilot, I'll Take the High Road (first published in 1939 and praised by the New York Times as 'a stirring and revealing story, told with sensitiveness and lucidity and with the warmth of a modest personal charm'), and selections from his 1951 memoir, A Flier's World, to create a distinctive book that provides a pioneering look at the American landscape as seen from the cockpit of a light plane. Langewiesche's photographs from his cross-country flights circa 1939 evoke the era.Wolfgang Langewiesche is revered among pilots for his 1944 flying primer, Stick and Rudder, currently in its seventieth printing. Considered the bible of aviation, it tells us the 'how' of flying; America from the Air tells us the 'why.' Here his descriptions of the country offer unique perspectives on New England, the Midwest, and the Atlantic Coast from Virginia to Key West, at a time before the country was paved over by multilane expressways, suburban tract housing, and strip malls. His bird's-eye view of America takes in small farms, deserted seashores, busy railway lines, and cities in which skyscrapers were still engineering marvels. With the keen eye of a surveyor and an uncommon talent for conveying the physical sensation of flying, he describes landscape in all its beauty and detail as it rolls out beneath him, unveiling its mysteries. Langewiesche is revealed here as an infectiously enthusiastic aviator and an unrivaled observer of the American landscape. In a new foreword, Langewiesche's son, writer William Langewiesche, describes his father's love of the view from above. Hokanson and Kratz's introduction and biography update the reader, incorporating stories gleaned from recent interviews with the author.
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801878195
ISBN-13
9780801878190
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6021435
Product Key Features
Publication Name
America from the Air : an Aviator's Story
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Landscape, United States / General, Subjects & Themes / Aerial
Publication Year
2004
Series
American Land Classics Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Photography, Travel, Architecture
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2003-013849
Lc Classification Number
E169.L2725 2004
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"The heart of the work is in Langewiesche's sensitive, descriptive prose, which will keep readers -- both veterans and newcomers -- entranced"-- Sport Aviation, "[Langewiesche] introduced Americans to their own environment as seen from the air, combining his love for the coasts, farms, and plains of his adopted country with his love for flying slightly over them."-- Reference and Research Book News, [Langewiesche] introduced Americans to their own environment as seen from the air, combining his love for the coasts, farms, and plains of his adopted country with his love for flying slightly over them., The heart of the work is in Langewiesche's sensitive, descriptive prose, which will keep readers--both veterans and newcomers--entranced, The heart of the work is in Langewiesche's sensitive, descriptive prose, which will keep readers-both veterans and newcomers-entranced, ""[Langewiesche] introduced Americans to their own environment as seen from the air, combining his love for the coasts, farms, and plains of his adopted country with his love for flying slightly over them.""
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
917.304/91/0222
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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