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The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur & Orville Wright
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Title Description Noah Adams, former host of NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, is a passionately curious and captivating raconteur. His latest foray follows the footsteps of Wilbur and Orville Wright across the U.S. and France, and finds the brothers surprisingly complex. Adams traces Wilbur's first trip to North Carolina's remote Outer Banks and visits the dirt horse-racing track in France where the Wright Flyer smashed records and amazed the European aviation community. He visits Wilbur's takeoff point for a daring twenty-mile roundtrip up the Hudson River as a million people watched below. Adams's wonder and delight fuel our own, as he invites us into the brothers' bicycle shop, shows us their first experiments and inventions, and makes us instinctively understand the dynamics of wind and the physics of flight. Recommendations Customers who ordered this book also ordered: 1. Cochrane: The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain by Robert Harvey; read by Richard Matthews. (CD, Tape, or Audio Download) 2. For Laci by Sharon Rocha; read by Staci Snell. (CD, Tape, or Audio Download) 3. The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport by Carl Hiaasen; read by Carl Hiaasen. (CD or Tape) Customer Reviews Have you listened to this audiobook? Please submit your ratings and review it! |
