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A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908-1918

hardcover – November 30, 1994
by Wohl, Professor Robert
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ISBN-13: 9780300057782 ISBN-10: 0300057784
Publisher
Yale University Press
Binding
hardcover
Published
November 30, 1994
Weight
3.4 lbs
Dimensions
27.30×3.20×21.60 cm

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A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908-1918 by Wohl, Professor Robert. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780300057782.

This elegantly written, copiously illustrated book presents the first cultural history of the pioneering phase of aviation. Robert Wohl`s fascinating story describes Wilbur Wright and other colorful early aeronauts, aces such as Baron von Richthofen, and the enthusiastic responses to the implications of aviation by such writers and artists as H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Kazimir Malevich, Robert Delaunay, Gabriele D`Annunzio, and Emile Driant.