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Genre/Form: | Literature Illustrated works Children's nonfiction 1100L Pictorial works Juvenile works Juvenile literature |
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Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tim Grove; National Air and Space Museum. |
ISBN: | 9781419714825 1419714821 9781518210686 1518210686 |
OCLC Number: | 881592513 |
Awards: | YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, 2016. |
Target Audience: | 1100L; Sentence length: 5 (very hard); Word frequency: 2 (easy) |
Description: | vi, 88 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
Contents: | Journey of the world flight map -- The journey begins -- Planning the trip -- Fierce winds in Alaska -- Disaster on the mountain -- First across the Pacific -- Colorful Japan -- Mechanical trouble in Indochina -- The heat of India -- A grand welcome in Paris -- Meeting royalty in Great Britain -- Plane in danger -- Icebergs and fog -- The welcoming crowds of North America -- Journey's end. |
Responsibility: | by Tim Grove. |
Abstract:
The only book for young readers about one of the most important events in the Golden Age of Flight in the 1920s and 1930s: the 1924 flight around the world by the U.S. Army Air Service.
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