ID3 GvTIT2 The Flyers - Part 1TCOP Books on TapeCOMM * eng
Noah Adams, former host of NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, is a passionately curious and captivating raconteur. His latest foray follows the footsteps of Wilbur and Orville Wright across the U.S. and France, and finds the brothers surprisingly complex. Adams traces Wilbur's first trip to North Carolina's remote Outer Banks and visits the dirt horse-racing track in France where the Wright Flyer smashed records and amazed the European aviation community. He visits Wilbur's takeoff point for a daring twenty-mile roundtrip up the Hudson River as a million people watched below. Adams's wonder and delight fuel our own, as he invites us into the brothers' bicycle shop, shows us their first experiments and inventions, and makes us instinctively understand the dynamics of wind and the physics of flight.TALB 2 The Flyers - In Search of Wilbur & Orville WrightTCON NonfictionTRCK 1TXXX f OverDrive MediaMarkers