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The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and S… door Corey Mead
By the time I actually got around to reading this book, I appreciated that it was more of an exercise in true crime than aviation history, though without the great post-Lindbergh aviation craze this ultimately tragic tale couldn't have happened. Still, William Lancaster and Jessie Miller were stars for a day, having managed to fly a single-engine biplane from Great Britain to Australia. Then the Great Depression arrived and, in an effort to make financial ends meet, Miller takes up with one Haden Clarke, ostensibly to ghost-write Miller's memoir, only things get badly out of hand on the romantic front, with Lancaster probably murdering Clarke. I'll leave it to the interested reader to pick up the story from there. The main impression I'm left with is that none of this trio had the best impulse control in the world.… (meer)
½An interesting story about the lives of two pilots who flew from England to Australia back at the dawn of aviation. I found the flying part to be much more interesting than the drama and sordid details about the remainder of their lives. Honestly, I don't think there was enough for an entire book as this felt drawn out.
In the 1920's, this is the story of two adventurous pilots - a man from England and a woman from Australia. They are married to other people when they team up to fly from Europe to Australia in the age of Lindbergh. This book has crashes, sex, romance and even murder? This is a story that would be hard to believe if it didn't happen. Luckily for the author, the pair left highly detailed diaries and they were widely covered by the press. A nice non fiction book on the world of early aviation.
The story of Benjamin Franklin's invention of the glass armonica -- with bits about the history of glass-making, the development of musical therapy, and the changing fortunes of the instrument thrown in for good measure. Enjoyed the book, but I found the author's writing style less scholarly and more repetitive in places than I might have preferred.
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