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Into the blue : American writing on aviation and spaceflight / edited by Joseph J. Corn.
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- ISBN: 9781598531084
- ISBN: 1598531085
- Physical Description: xix, 684 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Library of America, c2011.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [657]-661) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- On the first balloons / Benjamin Franklin -- "Carlotte, the lady aeronaut" (Mary H. Myers) from 'Aerial adventures of Carlotta; or, Sky-larking in cloudland' -- From 'Gleanings in bee culture' / A.I. Root -- From 'A record-breaking balloon voyage' / Henry Helm Clayton -- The Wright brothers' aëroplane / Orville and Wilbur Wright -- Flying, a dream come true! / Ida M. Tarbell -- Aviator tells new terrors for armies / Glenn L. Martin -- Notes on war experiences / Eddie Rickenbacker -- From 'A Yankee ace in the RAF' / Bogart Rogers -- A Paris-to-Strasburg flight shows living cubist picture / Ernest Hemingway -- Air circus / Hart Stilwell and Slats Rodgers -- The day I sprouted wings / J. Herman Banning -- Transatlantic / Gilbert Seldes -- From 'The Spirit of St. Louis' / Charles A. Lindbergh -- From 'Shadows of the sun' / Harry Crosby -- Eight miles--straight up! / Hawthorne C. Gray -- Across / Amelia Earhart -- From 'The world from the air' / Waldo Frank -- From 'Atlantic takeoff' / Ruth Nichols -- Air stewardess / Francis Vivian Drake -- Twelve strangers in the night / Elizabeth M. Bisgood -- Knapsack of salvation / Wolfgang Langewiesche --(cont.) From 'Everybody's autobiography' / Gertrude Stein -- From 'Test pilot' / Jimmy Collins -- Flying again / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- The campers at Kitty Hawk / John Dos Passos -- From 'Adventure was the compass' / Alma Heflin -- From 'All the brave promises' / Mary Lee Settle -- Flying home / Ralph Ellison -- First mission / Bert Stiles -- From 'I've had it' / Beirne Lay Jr. -- From 'Flights of passage' / Samuel Hynes -- From 'Song of the sky' / Guy Murchie -- Six freshmen and an ercoupe / William F. Buckley Jr. -- From 'Fate Is the hunter' / Ernest K. Gann -- From 'Yeager : an autobiography' / Chuck Yaeger -- From 'The hunters' / James Salter -- From 'Crossing the last frontier' / Wernher von Braun -- From 'Flight into space' / Jonathan Norton Leonard -- From 'The man who rode the thunder' / William R. Rankin -- From 'The right stuff' / Tom Wolfe -- From 'Stranger to the ground' / Richard Bach -- From 'John Glenn, a memoir' / John Glenn -- From 'Flight of passage' / Rinker Buck -- From 'Carrying the fire' / Michael Collins --(cont.) From 'Thud Ridge' / Jack Broughton -- From 'Dispatches' / Michael Herr -- From 'Failure is not an option' / Gene Kranz -- From 'Of a fire on the moon' / Norman Mailer -- From 'Magnificent desolation' / Buzz Aldrin -- Big sky / Gordon Baxter -- From 'On extended wings' / Diane Ackerman -- The iron maiden / Sherman Baldwin -- Starduster / Laurence Gonzales -- From 'Something's got to give' / Darcy Frey -- The turn / William Langewiesche -- From 'Up in the air' / Walter Kirn -- From 'The Kabul-ki dance' / Mark Bowden -- Home / Chris Jones.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | PS 374 .A37 I58 2011 | 679073 | Stacks | Available | - |
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| 505 | 8 | . | ‡a(cont.) From 'Everybody's autobiography' / Gertrude Stein -- From 'Test pilot' / Jimmy Collins -- Flying again / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- The campers at Kitty Hawk / John Dos Passos -- From 'Adventure was the compass' / Alma Heflin -- From 'All the brave promises' / Mary Lee Settle -- Flying home / Ralph Ellison -- First mission / Bert Stiles -- From 'I've had it' / Beirne Lay Jr. -- From 'Flights of passage' / Samuel Hynes -- From 'Song of the sky' / Guy Murchie -- Six freshmen and an ercoupe / William F. Buckley Jr. -- From 'Fate Is the hunter' / Ernest K. Gann -- From 'Yeager : an autobiography' / Chuck Yaeger -- From 'The hunters' / James Salter -- From 'Crossing the last frontier' / Wernher von Braun -- From 'Flight into space' / Jonathan Norton Leonard -- From 'The man who rode the thunder' / William R. Rankin -- From 'The right stuff' / Tom Wolfe -- From 'Stranger to the ground' / Richard Bach -- From 'John Glenn, a memoir' / John Glenn -- From 'Flight of passage' / Rinker Buck -- From 'Carrying the fire' / Michael Collins -- |
| 505 | 8 | . | ‡a(cont.) From 'Thud Ridge' / Jack Broughton -- From 'Dispatches' / Michael Herr -- From 'Failure is not an option' / Gene Kranz -- From 'Of a fire on the moon' / Norman Mailer -- From 'Magnificent desolation' / Buzz Aldrin -- Big sky / Gordon Baxter -- From 'On extended wings' / Diane Ackerman -- The iron maiden / Sherman Baldwin -- Starduster / Laurence Gonzales -- From 'Something's got to give' / Darcy Frey -- The turn / William Langewiesche -- From 'Up in the air' / Walter Kirn -- From 'The Kabul-ki dance' / Mark Bowden -- Home / Chris Jones. |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aAeronautics in literature. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aAstronautics in literature. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aFlight in literature. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aAmerican fiction ‡y20th century. | |
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