Wings of Madness Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight
by Hoffman, PaulEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-06-11
Publisher(s): Grand Central Publishing
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Summary
From the author of the acclaimed "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" comes a book that is at once the biography of an eccentric Brazilian aviator, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and the story of the thrilling early days of flight. 16-page photo insert.
Author Biography
Paul Hoffman has been a special correspondent for Good Morning America and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He was president of Encyclopaedia Britannica and editor-in-chief of Discover. He is the winner of the first National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, Time, and Atlantic Monthly. Hoffman was the host of the five-part PBS series Great Minds of Science. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Woodstock, NY
Table of Contents
| Prologue | 1 | (8) | |
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| 1. Arrival | 9 | (17) | |
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| 2. "A Most Dangerous Place for a Boy" | 26 | (14) | |
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| 3. First Flight | 40 | (29) | |
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| 4. Dying for Science | 69 | (21) | |
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| 5. The Turkey Buzzard's Secret | 90 | (12) | |
| 6. An Afternoon in the Rothschilds' Chestnut Tree | 102 | (25) | |
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| 7. "It Is the Poor Who Will Suffer!" | 127 | (23) | |
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| 8. "Making Armies a Jest" | 150 | (11) | |
| 9. An Unwelcome Dip in the Mediterranean | 161 | (46) | |
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| 10. "Airship is Useless, Says Lord Kelvin" 178 | |||
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| 11. The World's First Aerial Car | 207 | (27) | |
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| 12. A Scurrilous Stabbing and a Russian Bribe | 234 | (17) | |
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| 13. "Aeroplane Raised by Small Motor, M. Santos-Dumont Performs a Feat Never Before Attained in Europe" | 251 | (27) | |
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| 14. "A War of Engineers and Chemists" | 278 | (14) | |
| 15. "Cavalry of the Clouds" | 292 | (9) | |
| 16. Departure | 301 | (16) | |
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| Postmortem | |||
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| Origins and Acknowledgments | 317 | (6) | |
| Notes | 323 | (26) | |
| What Santos-Dumont Wrote | 349 | (2) | |
| What Santos-Dumont Read | 351 | (2) | |
| What Santos-Dumont Made | 353 | (6) | |
| Index | 359 |
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