Gentlemen of Adventure

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Emest K.Gann
Here is Ernest K. Gann's long-awaited, epic, multigenerational növel of aviation, air-planes and airmen.
Here is the story of aviation, from the first clumsy attempts to glide with make-shift machines, to the daring aircraft used in World War I and onward, at an ever-quickening pace, to a near-present that only a few dared to dream.
Here too is the story of three fiercely independent individuals: Kiffin Draper and Toby Bryant—pioneer airmen whose friendship was stronger than blood—and Toby's wife Lily a woman unique in her time. They barnstormed together, flew through the first years of airmail, joined the Lafayette Escadrille, the Eagle Squadron, the Free French Air Force, to fight in foreign revolutions and both World Wars, sharing their magnificent adventures with the likes of Glenn Martin, Lincoln Beachey Charles "Síim" Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Billy Mitchell, Howard Hughes and many more. They were the last of a breed whose pas-... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Genfiemen
Adventure
Emest K.Gann
Here is Ernest K. Gann's long-awaited, epic, multigenerational növel of aviation, air-planes and airmen.
Here is the story of aviation, from the first clumsy attempts to glide with make-shift machines, to the daring aircraft used in World War I and onward, at an ever-quickening pace, to a near-present that only a few dared to dream.
Here too is the story of three fiercely independent individuals: Kiffin Draper and Toby Bryant—pioneer airmen whose friendship was stronger than blood—and Toby's wife Lily a woman unique in her time. They barnstormed together, flew through the first years of airmail, joined the Lafayette Escadrille, the Eagle Squadron, the Free French Air Force, to fight in foreign revolutions and both World Wars, sharing their magnificent adventures with the likes of Glenn Martin, Lincoln Beachey Charles "Síim" Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Billy Mitchell, Howard Hughes and many more. They were the last of a breed whose pas-
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sions and aspirations were the stuff of soaring flight itself.
Gentlemen of Adventure is Ernest K. Gann at his best. The re is none better.
ERNEST K. GANN's eighteen novels in-clude such famed bestsellers as The High and the Mighty, Fate Is the Hunter, The Antagonists (Masada) and The Aviator (published by Arbor House). He makes his home in Friday Harbor, State of Washington.
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