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Author: Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-SmithPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
My Flying Life. An Authentic Biography Prepared Under the Personal Supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. With a Preface by Geoffrey Rawson [the Editor]. With 27 Illustrations [including Portraits].
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Author: Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
My Flying Life: an Authentic Biography Prepared Under the Personal Supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, with a Pref. by Geoffrey Rawson
Author: Sir Charles Kingsford SmithPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
My Flying Life : an Authentic Biography Prepared Under the Personal Supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
Author: Sir Charles Kingsford SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
My Flying Life. An Authentic Biography Prepared ... from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
Author: Sir Charles Edward Kingsford SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men
Author: Peter FitzSimonsPublisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0732288193
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
This comprehensive biography, written with typical flair by bestselling author Peter Fitzsimons, covers the triumphs and tragedies of not only Kingsford Smith's daring and controversial life but also of his companion aviators.
B.H. Blackwell
Author: B.H. Blackwell LtdPublisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Smithy
Author: Ian MackerseyPublisher: Little Brown GBR
ISBN: 9780751526561
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
During his brief 38 years of life, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (1897-1935) was one of the most celebrated public idols in history, becoming for a few years in the late 20s and early 30s a legend across the world for his brilliance as a pilot and his charismatic style among the pioneers of long-distance flying. The first person to fly an aircraft across the Pacific from America to Australia (in 1928) he broke many solo flying records, and this brought him a status greater than any modern astronaut - a crowd of 300,000 greeted him in Sydney. But the price of his heroism was high and the demands for celebrity and a messy private life ended in tragedy off the coast of Burma in 1935 in an attempt to fly from England to Australia. This biography explores his life and flying career.
The Social Life of Coffee
Author: Brian CowanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.