The Aerobats
Author | : Bill Yenne |
Publisher | : BDD Promotional Books Company |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780792455035 |
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Author | : Bill Yenne |
Publisher | : BDD Promotional Books Company |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780792455035 |
Author | : Mordecai Richler |
Publisher | : Emblem Editions |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2016-10-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0771073348 |
Living in a rat-infested hotel in Franco’s post-war Spain, André Bennett, a Canadian painter, loves Toni, his girl friend, who wants him to return home. Roger Kraus, a Nazi on the run, shadows the young artist day and night. They meet on a bridge during the last night of the fiesta, and as the sky is shredded by exploding fireworks, the story draws to its violent climax. Originally published in 1954, The Acrobats marks Mordecai Richler’s stunning debut as a novelist.
Author | : Mordecai Richler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Canadian fiction |
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Living in a rat-infested hotel in Franco's post-war Spain, Andre Bennett, a Canadian painter, loves Toni, his girl friend, who wants him to return home. Roger Kraus, a Nazi on the run, shadows the young artist day and night. They meet on a bridge during the last night of the fiesta, and as the sky is shredded by exploding fireworks, the story draws to its violent climax.
Author | : Richard Holmes |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 2013-10-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0307908704 |
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell. His accounts of the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of the beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar are dramatic and exhilarating. Holmes documents as well the balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the Civil War (including a flight taken by George Armstrong Custer); the legendary tale of at least sixty-seven manned balloons that escaped from Paris (the first successful civilian airlift in history) during the Prussian siege of 1870-71; the high-altitude exploits of James Glaisher (who rose) seven miles above the earth without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology); and how Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jules Verne felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. A seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography, and the metaphysics of flights, Falling Upwards explores the interplay between technology and imagination. And through the strange allure of these great balloonists, it offers a masterly portrait of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision. (With 24 pages of color illustrations, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
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Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1912 |
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Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Author | : Eric Cagle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9780786928880 |
This premier guide to alien races in the Star Wars universe, which complements the Star Wars Roleplaying Game, is a revised and updated collection of more than 125 alien species suitable for play as characters in the game.
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Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Author | : Rebecca Hart Olander |
Publisher | : CavanKerry Press |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2021-11 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781933880884 |
These poems address the universal experiences of death and loss, putting the complicated feelings of grief into words. Uncertain Acrobats evokes the feeling of unraveling. The central concern of this narrative is the death of a parent and the fumbling for balance a dying father and his adult daughter share. Rebecca Hart Olander's intimate collection doesn't shy away from darkness, but it also strives for light, which resides in music and open-hearted humanity. These poems arc across the terrain of divorce, family, childhood, coming of age, mortality, and deep, abiding love, always landing with a foothold in the genuine. A manifestation of what endures after grief has unraveled our closest bonds, Uncertain Acrobats reaches beyond the author's personal experience of grief. This collection speaks to all whose lives have been upended by terminal illness or the loss of a beloved person.
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Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1964 |
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