Author: Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 154150593X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Would you want to swoop through the air like a bird? Riding a hang glider is a fun way to fly. But a hang glider has no motor. How does the pilot take off? How does the hang glider stay in the air? Learn the answers in this book!
How Do Hang Gliders Work?
Author: Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 154150593X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Would you want to swoop through the air like a bird? Riding a hang glider is a fun way to fly. But a hang glider has no motor. How does the pilot take off? How does the hang glider stay in the air? Learn the answers in this book!
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 154150593X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Would you want to swoop through the air like a bird? Riding a hang glider is a fun way to fly. But a hang glider has no motor. How does the pilot take off? How does the hang glider stay in the air? Learn the answers in this book!
Hang Gliding Training Manual
Author: Dennis Pagen
Publisher: Black Mountain Books
ISBN: 9780936310121
Category : Hang gliding
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher: Black Mountain Books
ISBN: 9780936310121
Category : Hang gliding
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Manbirds
Author: Maralys Wills
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Glider Flying Handbook
Author: Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1602390614
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
For both certified glider pilots and students attempting certification in the glider category, this is an unparalleled...
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1602390614
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
For both certified glider pilots and students attempting certification in the glider category, this is an unparalleled...
Flying with Condors
Author: Judy Leden
Publisher: Orion Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780752801339
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Three times Judy Leden has been the champion of the world—twice in hang gliding and once in paragliding—and 6 times British Women's Champion. In Patagonia, she realized her dream of flying wing-tip to wing-tip with Andean condors. This is her autobiography.
Publisher: Orion Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780752801339
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Three times Judy Leden has been the champion of the world—twice in hang gliding and once in paragliding—and 6 times British Women's Champion. In Patagonia, she realized her dream of flying wing-tip to wing-tip with Andean condors. This is her autobiography.
Harry and the Hang Glider
Author: Randall Kerchill
Publisher: Sky High Pub
ISBN: 9781890514525
Category : Hang gliding
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A cottontail rabbit named Harry finds a hang glider in the Arizona desert and returns it to the owner. He is rewarded with flying lessons and must learn about the equipment, practice hard, and take a test before actually hang gliding.
Publisher: Sky High Pub
ISBN: 9781890514525
Category : Hang gliding
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A cottontail rabbit named Harry finds a hang glider in the Arizona desert and returns it to the owner. He is rewarded with flying lessons and must learn about the equipment, practice hard, and take a test before actually hang gliding.
How Do Hot Air Balloons Work?
Author: Buffy Silverman
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 1541505972
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Hot air balloons are huge and colorful. They're lots of fun to watch. But how do they fly? And how do people control where the hot air balloon goes? Read this book to find out!
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 1541505972
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Hot air balloons are huge and colorful. They're lots of fun to watch. But how do they fly? And how do people control where the hot air balloon goes? Read this book to find out!
Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals (How Nature Works)
Author: Sneed B. Collard
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN: 0884485390
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
*Junior Library Guild Selection 2017* Only a few dozen vertebrate animals have evolved true gliding abilities, but they include an astonishing variety of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. North America’s flying squirrels and Australia’s sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests. Illustrated with arresting photographs, Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why this gravity-defying ability has evolved in Draco lizards, snakes, and frogs as well as mammals. Why do gliders stop short of flying, how did bats make that final leap, and how did Homo sapiens bypass evolution to glide via wingsuits and hang gliders—or is that evolution in another guise? Fountas & Pinnell Level R
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN: 0884485390
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
*Junior Library Guild Selection 2017* Only a few dozen vertebrate animals have evolved true gliding abilities, but they include an astonishing variety of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. North America’s flying squirrels and Australia’s sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests. Illustrated with arresting photographs, Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why this gravity-defying ability has evolved in Draco lizards, snakes, and frogs as well as mammals. Why do gliders stop short of flying, how did bats make that final leap, and how did Homo sapiens bypass evolution to glide via wingsuits and hang gliders—or is that evolution in another guise? Fountas & Pinnell Level R
Hang Gliding Techniques
Author: Dennis Pagen
Publisher: Black Mountain Books
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher: Black Mountain Books
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Eagle in Exile
Author: Alan Smale
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0804177252
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Steve Berry, Naomi Novik, and Harry Turtledove, Alan Smale’s gripping alternate history series imagines a world in which the Roman Empire has survived long enough to invade North America in 1218. Now the stunning story carries hero Gaius Marcellinus deeper into the culture of an extraordinary people—whose humanity, bravery, love, and ingenuity forever change his life and destiny. In A.D. 1218, Praetor Gaius Marcellinus is ordered to conquer North America and turning it into a Roman province. But outside the walls of the great city of Cahokia, his legion is destroyed outright; Marcellinus is the only one spared. In the months and years that follow, Marcellinus comes to see North America as his home and the Cahokians as his kin. He vows to defend these proud people from any threat, Roman or native. After successfully repelling an invasion by the fearsome Iroqua tribes, Marcellinus realizes that a weak and fractured North America won’t stand a chance against the returning Roman army. Worse, rival factions from within threaten to tear Cahokia apart just when it needs to be most united and strong. Marcellinus is determined to save the civilization that has come to mean more to him than the empire he once served. But to survive the swords of Roma, he first must avert another Iroqua attack and bring Cahokia together. Only with the hearts and souls of a nation at his back can Marcellinus hope to know triumph. Praise for Alan Smale and Eagle in Exile “In Alan Smale, speculative fiction has been dealt a winning hand. Part historian, part anthropologist, part scientist, Smale is a Renaissance man with a storyteller’s gift for letting tireless research inform the narrative without overwhelming it. Smale entertains, educates, and enraptures.”—Myke Cole, author of Javelin Rain “[Eagle in Exile] has the pace and scope of a Michener or Uris epic. . . . Smale’s action scenes slash across page after page, intense and bloody. . . . Grab your dagger and sword, for the battle continues.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Warfare, political conflict, family strife—these are all presented in an epic scope where any decision or wrong move can forever change society.”—Tech Times “Thoroughly believable . . . Marcellinus is a complicated man, a hero we can all get behind.”—Historical Novels Review
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0804177252
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Steve Berry, Naomi Novik, and Harry Turtledove, Alan Smale’s gripping alternate history series imagines a world in which the Roman Empire has survived long enough to invade North America in 1218. Now the stunning story carries hero Gaius Marcellinus deeper into the culture of an extraordinary people—whose humanity, bravery, love, and ingenuity forever change his life and destiny. In A.D. 1218, Praetor Gaius Marcellinus is ordered to conquer North America and turning it into a Roman province. But outside the walls of the great city of Cahokia, his legion is destroyed outright; Marcellinus is the only one spared. In the months and years that follow, Marcellinus comes to see North America as his home and the Cahokians as his kin. He vows to defend these proud people from any threat, Roman or native. After successfully repelling an invasion by the fearsome Iroqua tribes, Marcellinus realizes that a weak and fractured North America won’t stand a chance against the returning Roman army. Worse, rival factions from within threaten to tear Cahokia apart just when it needs to be most united and strong. Marcellinus is determined to save the civilization that has come to mean more to him than the empire he once served. But to survive the swords of Roma, he first must avert another Iroqua attack and bring Cahokia together. Only with the hearts and souls of a nation at his back can Marcellinus hope to know triumph. Praise for Alan Smale and Eagle in Exile “In Alan Smale, speculative fiction has been dealt a winning hand. Part historian, part anthropologist, part scientist, Smale is a Renaissance man with a storyteller’s gift for letting tireless research inform the narrative without overwhelming it. Smale entertains, educates, and enraptures.”—Myke Cole, author of Javelin Rain “[Eagle in Exile] has the pace and scope of a Michener or Uris epic. . . . Smale’s action scenes slash across page after page, intense and bloody. . . . Grab your dagger and sword, for the battle continues.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Warfare, political conflict, family strife—these are all presented in an epic scope where any decision or wrong move can forever change society.”—Tech Times “Thoroughly believable . . . Marcellinus is a complicated man, a hero we can all get behind.”—Historical Novels Review