The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot
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Rs. 499.00
Age: 4-8
Format: Paperback
Author: Provensen, Alice
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This book . . . recounts the persistence of a Frenchman, Louis, to build a flying machine to cross the English Channel. . . . The text is succinct, caption-like in its directness and brevity. . . . The paintings . . . add the necessary texture and tone to this marriage. This is vintage Provensen.--School Library Journal. Caldecott Medal. Annotation A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel.