Into the blue : American writing on aviation and spaceflight
Publication Information
[New York, N.Y.] : Library of America, c2011.
Physical Description
xix, 684 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- On the first balloons / Benjamin Franklin
- "Carlotte, the lady aeronaut" (Mary H. Myers) from 'Aerial adventures of Carlotta; or, Sky-larking in cloudland'
- From 'Gleanings in bee culture' / A.I. Root
- From 'A record-breaking balloon voyage' / Henry Helm Clayton
- The Wright brothers' aëroplane / Orville and Wilbur Wright
- Flying, a dream come true! / Ida M. Tarbell
- Aviator tells new terrors for armies / Glenn L. Martin
- Notes on war experiences / Eddie Rickenbacker
- From 'A Yankee ace in the RAF' / Bogart Rogers
- A Paris-to-Strasburg flight shows living cubist picture / Ernest Hemingway
- Air circus / Hart Stilwell and Slats Rodgers
- The day I sprouted wings / J. Herman Banning
- Transatlantic / Gilbert Seldes
- From 'The Spirit of St. Louis' / Charles A. Lindbergh
- From 'Shadows of the sun' / Harry Crosby
- Eight miles--straight up! / Hawthorne C. Gray
- Across / Amelia Earhart
- From 'The world from the air' / Waldo Frank
- From 'Atlantic takeoff' / Ruth Nichols
- Air stewardess / Francis Vivian Drake
- Twelve strangers in the night / Elizabeth M. Bisgood
- Knapsack of salvation / Wolfgang Langewiesche --
- (cont.) From 'Everybody's autobiography' / Gertrude Stein
- From 'Test pilot' / Jimmy Collins
- Flying again / Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- The campers at Kitty Hawk / John Dos Passos
- From 'Adventure was the compass' / Alma Heflin
- From 'All the brave promises' / Mary Lee Settle
- Flying home / Ralph Ellison
- First mission / Bert Stiles
- From 'I've had it' / Beirne Lay Jr.
- From 'Flights of passage' / Samuel Hynes
- From 'Song of the sky' / Guy Murchie
- Six freshmen and an ercoupe / William F. Buckley Jr.
- From 'Fate Is the hunter' / Ernest K. Gann
- From 'Yeager : an autobiography' / Chuck Yaeger
- From 'The hunters' / James Salter
- From 'Crossing the last frontier' / Wernher von Braun
- From 'Flight into space' / Jonathan Norton Leonard
- From 'The man who rode the thunder' / William R. Rankin
- From 'The right stuff' / Tom Wolfe
- From 'Stranger to the ground' / Richard Bach
- From 'John Glenn, a memoir' / John Glenn
- From 'Flight of passage' / Rinker Buck
- From 'Carrying the fire' / Michael Collins --
- (cont.) From 'Thud Ridge' / Jack Broughton
- From 'Dispatches' / Michael Herr
- From 'Failure is not an option' / Gene Kranz
- From 'Of a fire on the moon' / Norman Mailer
- From 'Magnificent desolation' / Buzz Aldrin
- Big sky / Gordon Baxter
- From 'On extended wings' / Diane Ackerman
- The iron maiden / Sherman Baldwin
- Starduster / Laurence Gonzales
- From 'Something's got to give' / Darcy Frey
- The turn / William Langewiesche
- From 'Up in the air' / Walter Kirn
- From 'The Kabul-ki dance' / Mark Bowden
- Home / Chris Jones.