The glorious flight : across the Channel with Louis Blériot, July 25, 1909
(1987, original release: 1983)
By:
Provensen, Alice
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
E/BIOGRAPHY/629.13/BLERIOT,L/PRO
0 Holds on 1 Copy
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1987
©1983
©1983
DESCRIPTION
39 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0140507299 (pbk.), 0808591746
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1983
A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel
Winner of the 1984 Caldecott medal
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