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A Dream of Flight: Alberto SantosDumont's Race Around the Eiffel Tower,Used
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Debut nonfiction duo Rob and Jef Polivka offer an illustrated madcap adventure in A Dream of Flight, a dynamic biography of Alberto SantosDumont, an inventor who risked everything to reach the skies. And sure enough, his successes and failures brought the worlds people closer together.Ready? Set. Fly!At the turn of the twentieth century, no aviation prize was more coveted in Europe than the Deutsch Prize. To win it, a pilot would have to fly a balloon from Pariss Aero Club around the Eiffel Tower and back in thirty minutes or less. Who would be the first to succeed?Alberto SantosDumont thought he could. His latest design, Airship No. 6, was perfected from the countless lessons he learned during previous crashes. On the morning of October 19, 1901, Santos was making good time in the race when disaster struckhis motor had sputtered to a stop midair! Would Santos make it to the finish line in timelet alone survive?
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