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Grant, Reg

Flight: The Trials and Triumphs of Air Pioneers

96 pp. | DK | March, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-7894-9702-6 $$14.99 | Paper ISBN 0-7894-9223-7 $$5.99
(4) 4-6 DK Secret Worlds series. Grant documents the history of flight: from ancient myths about humans trying to simulate bird flight and pre-twentieth-century balloon experiments to twenty-first-century space flight and stealth airplanes. The busy color and black-and-white graphics are so prominent that they often distract readers from the informative prose. Text boxes offer statistics, and a variety of short reference appendices are included. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Jack Forman

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