| Author | Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974.
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| Title | The Spirit of St. Louis / Charles A. Lindbergh.
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| Published | New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1953.
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| Description | xii, 562 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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| General Note | "A condensation has appeared in the Saturday evening post under the title '33 hours to Paris.'"
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Part I. The craft -- St. Louis-Chicago mail -- New York -- San Diego -- Across the continent -- Roosevelt Field -- Part II. New York to Paris -- The log of the Spirit of St. Louis -- The cruiser Memphis -- Decorations, awards & trophies / by Esther B. Mueller -- The Raymond Orteig prize -- Engineering data on the Spirit of St. Louis / by Donald A. Hall -- Specifications and general description of the Whirlwind engine / by Kenneth M. Lane.
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| Summary Note | Summary: Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
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| Awards Note | Awards: Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1954.
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| Subjects | Air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974.
Spirit of St. Louis (Airplane)
Transatlantic flights.
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| LC Card Number | 53-11546 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: TL 540 L742 A3 1953
CA-1903079: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 69248] |
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