| Author | Harper, Harry, 1880-
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| Title | Riders of the sky : the saga of the flying men / by Harry Harper.
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| Published | London : Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1936.
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| Description | 255 pages : frontispiece, portraits ; 23 cm
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| General Note | "First printed 1936."
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| Formatted Note | Contents: The world's first sky-riders -- Wilbur and Orville Wright -- The youth who studied the birds -- Flying comes to Europe -- Bleriot, the triumphant -- Latham, the legendary -- The world's first air meeting, and after -- The great London-Manchester contest -- Other early links in the aerial chain -- Aerial heroes of the war -- Air dramas of the Atlantic -- Some air heroes of peace -- Dramas of the Pacific, South Atlantic, and Australia air routes -- Round-the-world flights -- Air epics of the Arctic -- Flying adventures in the Antarctic -- Modest heroes of our airways -- Women riders of the sky -- The sky-ways of the future.
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| Subjects | Aeronautics -- Flights.
Aeronautics -- History.
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| LC Card Number | 40-985 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: TL 515 H293 1936
CA-1903013: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 68899] |
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