The Wright Brothers The Epic Story of the Wright Brothers

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781476728742
  • 05 mei 2015
  • 336 pagina's
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David Mccullough

"David Gaub McCullough (/məˈkʌlə/; born July 7, 1933) is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award.

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#1 New York Times bestseller

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot.

Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did?

David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. The house they lived in had no electricity or indoor plumbing, but there were books aplenty, supplied mainly by their preacher father, and they never stopped reading.

When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education, little money and no contacts in high places, never stopped them in their 'mission' to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off in one of their contrivances, they risked being killed.

In this thrilling book, master historian David McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers' story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them.

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Hardcover
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05 mei 2015
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336
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David Mccullough
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David Mccullough
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Simon & Schuster

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178 mm
Product hoogte
29 mm
Product lengte
233 mm
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168 mm
Verpakking hoogte
29 mm
Verpakking lengte
236 mm
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703 g

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  • Zeer lezenswaard!

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    • mooie uitgave schitterende illistraties.

    Geweldige schrijver. Zijn research is fenomenaal.

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  • Very detailed, and a pleasure to read

    Disclaimer: I'm still reading the book

    So far I found the book very engaging. The background research seems very detailed. It gives me the sense of the Wright family, the relationship between the brothers, their younger sister and their father. While reading you get a sense of how they used to live, their personalities. I can only expect the book to get better as I progress.

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  • Indrukwekkend verhaal

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    • Inspirerend

    In dit boek wordt voornamelijk gesproken over de periode van innovatie op het gebied van vliegen in de periode 1900-1911. Over de obstakels die de ''wright brothers'' hadden op patent en octrooi gebied wordt niet veel aandacht aan gegeven, aan de ene kant is dit erg jammer aangezien dit ook in het hele dramatische verhaal hoort, maar aan de andere kant kan ik begrijpen dat ze hier niet veel aandacht aan hebben gegeven om de lezer niet teveel te vervelen maar vooral te inspireren. Dat heeft dit boek dan ook zeker voor mij gedaan. Een echte aanrader!

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