Wings of Madness Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight

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Edition: 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)
Dinner on the Ceiling
Champs-Elysées,1903
1. Arrival 9 (17)
Minas Gerais,1873
2. "A Most Dangerous Place for a Boy" 26(14)
Paris, 1891
3. First Flight 40 (29)
Vaugirard,1897
4. Dying for Science 69(21)
Paris, 1899
5. The Turkey Buzzard's Secret 90(12)
6. An Afternoon in the Rothschilds' Chestnut Tree 102(25)
Paris, 1901
7. "It Is the Poor Who Will Suffer!" 127(23)
The Eiffel Tower, 1901
8. "Making Armies a Jest" 150(11)
9. An Unwelcome Dip in the Mediterranean 161(46)
Bay of Monaco, 1902
10. "Airship is Useless, Says Lord Kelvin" 178
London and New York, 1902
11. The World's First Aerial Car 207(27)
Paris, 1903
12. A Scurrilous Stabbing and a Russian Bribe 234(17)
St. Louis, 1904
13. "Aeroplane Raised by Small Motor, M. Santos-Dumont Performs a Feat Never Before Attained in Europe" 251(27)
Paris, 1906
14. "A War of Engineers and Chemists" 278(14)
15. "Cavalry of the Clouds" 292(9)
16. Departure 301 (16)
Guarújd, 1932
Postmortem
In search of a Heart 312
Campo dos Afanas, 2000
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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