THE GREAT ATLANTIC AIR RACE: THE MAGICAL EARLY DAYS OF FLIGHT
Book ID/图书代码： 12870011B49166
English Summary/英文概要： On June 14, 1919, a Vickers Vimy biplane lumbered into the air from a field in St John’s, Newfoundland. More than sixteen hours and 3,000 kilometres later, the British crew of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown brought the aircraft down to a crash landing in a bog near Clifden, Ireland. The race to fly across the Atlantic Ocean had been won.
It is hard for us today to fully appreciate the celebrity status accorded Alcock and Brown their contemporaries in the world of aviation. Aircraft were flimsy, unreliable novelties and the men and women who flew them possessed incredible courage, daring and vision. Many of them have been forgotten, but others have become legends: Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post and Richard Byrd.
This book tell the stories of aviators who challenged the Atlantic Ocean between 1919 and the end of the Second World War. It tells how these pioneers lived and, all too often, died in their quest for glory.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1919年6月14日，一架维克斯•维梅双翼飞机从纽芬兰圣•琼斯的一块田里缓缓上升，在经历了6个小时，3000千米的航行后，在英籍飞行员约翰•艾尔考克和亚瑟•威登•布朗的操控下，这架双翼飞机冲向爱尔兰克里夫登的一块沼泽地里，他们成功的赢得了飞跃大西洋的比赛。 或许，从今天来看，我们很难理解航空界授予艾尔考克和布朗以及他们同代人的那种至高无上的荣誉地位。当时的飞机还轻薄且易损，是一种几乎没有可信度的新型发明，但当时敢于驾驶这种飞机的男男女女的飞行员却拥有我们难以想象的勇气，果敢和远见。或许他们中的许多时至今日早已被遗忘，但有一些却成为了永远的传奇：查尔斯•林德伯格，艾米利亚•埃尔哈特，威利•珀思特以及理查德•伯德。
本书讲述了那些在1919年到二战期间挑战大西洋的勇敢的飞行者们的故事，向我们展示了这些先驱者们是怎样的活着，又是怎样光荣逝去在他们探寻荣耀的道路上。(兼职翻译-DC)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 加文•威尔在加拿大纽芬兰拥有一家巨石出版社，主要从事非小说类书籍的出版。他曾做过商业记者，专为路透社，彭博新闻社及全球邮报以及另外几家油印出版公司撰稿。他一身对历史有着浓厚的兴趣，而当著名的飞行员阿米莉亚•埃尔哈特以及查尔斯•林德伯格在1920s-1930s来到纽芬兰海岸时，她强烈的感受到纽芬兰在这段航空航天的探索时期的重要历史地位，从而也激发了他对飞越大西洋飞行竞赛的强烈兴趣。 Gavin Will owns Boulder Publications, a book publishing firm in Newfoundland, Canada, that specializes in non-fiction. Previously, he worked as a business journalist, writing for Reuters, Bloomberg News, the Globe and Mail, and several oil industry publications.
With a lifelong love for history, his interest in transatlantic aviation was piqued by the central role Newfoundland played during the pioneer years of aviation, when such well known pilots as Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh visited its shores during the 1920s and 1930s.
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