Wild Blue: Stories of Survival from Air and Space (Adrenaline)

by David Fisher (Editor), Editors (Editor), David Fisher (Editor), William Garvey (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $22.34

  Wild Blue collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement of the century: controlled flight. Charles Lindbergh takes readers wing-walking in a barnstorming biplane; Ernest K. Gann describes how the nocturnal spell of copiloting a DC-2 at night is broken by the unexpected terror of ice on its wings; a young ace named Chuck Yeager shatters the sound barrier and then loses consciousness in a violently tumbling rocket-plane. From the soaring to the harrowing, from flying a Piper Cub over the Rockies at the age of 14 to a nighttime carrier approach with an anxious, rusty lieutenant, Wild Blue puts readers right in the cockpit.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.28

  The history of manned flight spans just under a century, but it includes some of the most glorious adventures in human experience. This title offers a selection of airborne adventures from authors such as Charles Lindbergh, Roald Dahl and Martin Amis. Like previous Adrenaline titles, Wild Blue draws upon first-hand accounts of life-and-death adventure - all by writers known for the grace and power of their prose. Many of these are pilots themselves, veterans of combat, crashes, space walks and other airborne epics. These pilots have been amongst the boldest explorers of the last century - and their stories prove it.