Atlantic Fever

Atlantic Fever
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 733
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ISBN-10 : 9781429969130
ISBN-13 : 142996913X
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Book Synopsis Atlantic Fever by : Joe Jackson

Download or read book Atlantic Fever written by Joe Jackson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping. Joe Jackson's Atlantic Fever is about this race, a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Delving into the lives of the big-name competitors—the polar explorer Richard Byrd, the French war hero René Fonck, the millionaire Charles Levine, and the race's eventual winner, the enigmatic Charles Lindbergh—as well as those whose names have been forgotten by history (such as Bernt Balchen, Stanton Wooster, and Clarence Chamberlin), Jackson brings a completely fresh and original perspective to the race to conquer the Atlantic. Atlantic Fever opens for us one of those magical windows onto a moment when the nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit led so many contenders from different parts of the world to be on the cusp of the exact same achievement at the exact same time.


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