Women Aloft
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Looks at the accomplishments of early women aviators and describes the obstacles they had to overcome to become flyers
Deze auteur wordt geprezen om zijn onderscheidende verhalende stem die lezers onderdompelt in diepe beschouwingen en ingewikkelde personages. Zijn werken duiken vaak in de menselijke psyche en ethische dilemma's, met onverwachte wendingen. Hij construeert zijn verhalen meesterlijk om sterke emoties op te roepen en een blijvende indruk achter te laten. Zijn zorgvuldig uitgewerkte proza biedt inzichten in de complexiteit van de wereld en de menselijke natuur.
Looks at the accomplishments of early women aviators and describes the obstacles they had to overcome to become flyers
"This is a book of dreams and dreamers; it is chock full of failures, because until December 17, 1903, all of the many attempts to achieve powered flight were failures. But don't let that put you off, for the story has a happy ending, one as dramatic as any epic tale in the literature of fact or fiction. You can almost hear the fellow who had been watching the Wright brothers on the dunes that day in 1903 come bursting into the little post office at Kitty Hawk shouting, "They have done it! Damned it they ain't flew."" Thomas H. Flaherty, Jr., Series Editor, The Epic of Flight