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For fans of death-defying early aviation, Mortimer’s history is great fun. Such period detail embroiders Mortimer’s narrative arcs, of which the first two are straightforward: that dirigible’s crew was rescued at sea, and the balloonists came down in Cana

• Title : Chasing Icarus: The Seventeen Days in 1910 That Forever Changed American Aviation
• Author : Gavin Mortimer
• Rating : 4.90 (376 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-8-20
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 320 Pages
• Asin : 0802719937
• Language : English

For fans of death-defying early aviation, Mortimer’s history is great fun. Such period detail embroiders Mortimer’s narrative arcs, of which the first two are straightforward: that dirigible’s crew was rescued at sea, and the balloonists came down in Canadian wilds and elsewhere to wend their ways back to civilization. Balloonists ascended from St. Louis in a contest for longest-flight bragging rights. The front-page celebrities of the moment, these aeronauts excited popular interest that Mortimer, capitalizing on archives and contemporary gazettes, restores excellently. Heavier-than-air-machines revved up at New York’s Belmont horse track to compete for superlatives in height, speed, and racing. --Gilbert Taylor . In contrast, the airplane meet was a harum-scarum drama with wealthy sportsmen—which most entrants besides businessmen Orville and Wilbur Wright were—wrecking their machines and retreating to hotels or hospitals as necessary. No detail, from flying togs to picnic hampers to society gossip, was too tangential for reporters to note. From Booklist Those magnificent men in thei

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Gavin Mortimer is the author of The Great Swim. He has written for a wide range of publications, from Esquire to the Daily Telegraph, from BBC History to the Observer

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In October of 1910, only four years before the outbreak of World War I, nobody knew whether planes, dirigibles, or balloons would prevail. Within a period of seventeen days, this question was on prime display, as the dirigible America tried to cross the Atlantic; huge crowds gathered at horse-racing tracks to watch airplanes race around overhead; and ballooning teams from around the world took off from St. Louis in pursuit of the Bennett International Balloon Cup, given to the balloon that traveled the farthest. In Chasing Icarus, Gavin Mortimer has plumbed original and primary sources to paint a vivid picture of the launching point of flight, and an indelible portrait of the late-Edwardian world about to explode into war.. The dramatic denouement would stun the country and lay the foundation for the air force