Atlantic Adventure: A Complete History of Transatlantic Flight.
1958 · London
by Clarke, Basil.
London: Allan Wingate, (1958). Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, map illustrated endpapers, ix + 236 pp. Neat former-owner bookplate; otherwise, Near-Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket that has been price clipped and which has light edgewear. From dust jacket: In the days when the space around the earth is cluttered with the debris of Russian experiments, the history of Atlantic flight will live not simply as a victory of mechanical contrivance and ingenuity but, more than anything, as a supreme example of human courage and high endeavour. Atlantic Advanture is the first comprehensive account of man’s conquest by air of that dangerous three thousand miles between the old world and the new. It begins with the first heavier-than-air crossing of Lieutenant Commander A.C.Read, U.S.N., in the flying-boat NC-4 on the 16th May, 1919. It took him eleven days to cross from West to East via St. Johns, Horta, Lisbon and Plymouth. On the 14th of June of that same year, Alcock and Brown of immortal memory made the first non-stop dash from West to East to the West coast of Ireland, in their converted Vickers-Vimy bomber in fifteen hours. Those were the historic successes, but this book also contains the whole chronicle of the British, American, German, French and Irish attempts... (Inventory #: 4128bd)