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Book

The Big Hop : the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean and into the future

Call Number

  • 629.13 R7777 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025]

Physical Description

viii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in "the Big Hop": an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was forced to abandon the journey halfway, and two pairs never made it into the air. Only one team, after a death-defying sixteen-hour flight, made it to Ireland"--

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