A Picture History of Flight
John W.R. Taylor
Used - Dust jacket shows wear.
In this volume the author has covered the whole story of man's conquest of the air from the early references of Roger Bacon to the preparatory work on interplanetary flight. Size hundred and forty-eight photographs have been selected from world wide sources and a total collection of mnay thousand prints. The autheor's encyclopaedic knowledge of his subject and an enthusiasm that has never once been checked by the magnitude of his task makes this a unique contribution to aeronautical literature. It is a book for the expert and layman, for the old and for the young.