The Balloon Factory
(Sprache: Englisch)
Alexander Frater's new book is about a small, largely forgotten group of young men who, early in the 20th Century, competed to build and fly England's first aeroplane.
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Alexander Frater's new book is about a small, largely forgotten group of young men who, early in the 20th Century, competed to build and fly England's first aeroplane.
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Alexander Frater's new book is about a small, largely forgotten group of young men who, early in the twentieth century, competed to build and fly Britain's first aeroplane. At the heart of his story lies the Balloon Factory, a cathedral-sized shed overlooking Farnborough Common, and its most celebrated occupant, the remarkable Sam Cody. It was he, a long-haired, gun-toting Texan ex-cowboy - barely literate, yet describing himself as 'a playwright' - who, in October 1908, finally won the race.Frater, described by the Independent as 'the most engaging of all living travel writers', goes in search of the pioneers and, in a work that is part history and part journey, picks up - for example - the Cody trail in Farnborough, visits the hillside above Blair Atholl where John William Dunne tested his extraordinary machine, near Scarborough discovers the stately home in which Sir George Cayley, a millionaire Yorkshire MP, invented the science of aeronautics, and, at Brooklands, begins towonder if the first-flight crown was, in fact, handed to the wrong man.Frater's richly described and wonderfully anecdotal journey brings those magnificent men - the rock stars of their time - and the places they knew vibrantly to life.Autoren-Porträt von Alexander Frater
Alexander Frater, Sohn eines schottischen Arztes und auf einer kleinen Insel im Süd-Pazifik geboren, ist Reisekorrespondent des 'Observer'.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alexander Frater
- 2008, Main Market Ed., 256 Seiten, Maße: 23,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
- ISBN-10: 0330433105
- ISBN-13: 9780330433105
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Englisch
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