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A true bookBurleigh, Robert.
Summary: An account of Amelia Earhart's dangerous 1932 flight across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland, in which she survived bad weather and a malfunctioning airplane. Includes a brief biography of the aviator.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J629.1309 BURBurleigh, Robert.
Summary: Describes how Charles Lindbergh achieved the remarkable feat of flying nonstop and solo from New York to Paris in 1927.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.1309 BURBak, Richard
Summary: "The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a hero. The race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and lesser known Charles Lindbergh who won the $25,000 Orteig Prize in 1927 for his history-making solo flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. Drawing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 BAKMcCarry, Charles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.133 MCCLindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
Summary: Lindbergh's own account of his historic transatlantic solo flight in 1927.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 LINJackson, Joe
Summary: "A fast-paced, dynamic account of the race to cross the Atlantic, and the larger-than-life personalities of the aviators who captured the world's attention In 1919, a prize of $25,000 was offered to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic in either direction between France and America. Although it was one of the most coveted prizes in the world, it sat unclaimed (not without efforts) for eight...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 JACPisano, Dominick
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in association with Harry N. Abrams 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 PISBenoit, Peter
Summary: Describes the crash of the Hindenburg airship in 1937, relaying the history of international airship flight and the events leading to the disaster, and explains what measures have been taken to make airship travel safer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2011