Into the blue
Subtitle: American writing on aviation and spaceflight
By: edited by Joseph J. Corn
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 684
ISBN-13: 9781598531084
Subjects: Flight in literature; American fiction; Astronautics in literature; Aeronautics in literature
Other titles: American writing on aviation and spaceflight
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [657]-661) and index.
Table of contents: title: On the first balloons / Benjamin Franklin; title: "Carlotte, the lady aeronaut" (Mary H. Myers) from 'Aerial adventures of Carlotta; or, Sky-larking in cloudland'; title: From 'Gleanings in bee culture' / A.I. Root; title: From 'A record-breaking balloon voyage' / Henry Helm Clayton; title: The Wright brothers' aëroplane / Orville and Wilbur Wright; title: Flying, a dream come true! / Ida M. Tarbell; title: Aviator tells new terrors for armies / Glenn L. Martin; title: Notes on war experiences / Eddie Rickenbacker; title: From 'A Yankee ace in the RAF' / Bogart Rogers; title: A Paris-to-Strasburg flight shows living cubist picture / Ernest Hemingway; title: Air circus / Hart Stilwell and Slats Rodgers; title: The day I sprouted wings / J. Herman Banning; title: Transatlantic / Gilbert Seldes; title: From 'The Spirit of St. Louis' / Charles A. Lindbergh; title: From 'Shadows of the sun' / Harry Crosby; title: Eight miles; title: straight up! / Hawthorne C. Gray; title: Across / Amelia Earhart; title: From 'The world from the air' / Waldo Frank; title: From 'Atlantic takeoff' / Ruth Nichols; title: Air stewardess / Francis Vivian Drake; title: Twelve strangers in the night / Elizabeth M. Bisgood; title: Knapsack of salvation / Wolfgang Langewiesche; title: (cont.) From 'Everybody's autobiography' / Gertrude Stein; title: From 'Test pilot' / Jimmy Collins; title: Flying again / Anne Morrow Lindbergh; title: The campers at Kitty Hawk / John Dos Passos; title: From 'Adventure was the compass' / Alma Heflin; title: From 'All the brave promises' / Mary Lee Settle; title: Flying home / Ralph Ellison; title: First mission / Bert Stiles; title: From 'I've had it' / Beirne Lay Jr.; title: From 'Flights of passage' / Samuel Hynes; title: From 'Song of the sky' / Guy Murchie; title: Six freshmen and an ercoupe / William F. Buckley Jr.; title: From 'Fate Is the hunter' / Ernest K. Gann; title: From 'Yeager : an autobiography' / Chuck Yaeger; title: From 'The hunters' / James Salter; title: From 'Crossing the last frontier' / Wernher von Braun; title: From 'Flight into space' / Jonathan Norton Leonard; title: From 'The man who rode the thunder' / William R. Rankin; title: From 'The right stuff' / Tom Wolfe; title: From 'Stranger to the ground' / Richard Bach; title: From 'John Glenn, a memoir' / John Glenn; title: From 'Flight of passage' / Rinker Buck; title: From 'Carrying the fire' / Michael Collins; title: (cont.) From 'Thud Ridge' / Jack Broughton; title: From 'Dispatches' / Michael Herr; title: From 'Failure is not an option' / Gene Kranz; title: From 'Of a fire on the moon' / Norman Mailer; title: From 'Magnificent desolation' / Buzz Aldrin; title: Big sky / Gordon Baxter; title: From 'On extended wings' / Diane Ackerman; title: The iron maiden / Sherman Baldwin; title: Starduster / Laurence Gonzales; title: From 'Something's got to give' / Darcy Frey; title: The turn / William Langewiesche; title: From 'Up in the air' / Walter Kirn; title: From 'The Kabul-ki dance' / Mark Bowden; title: Home / Chris Jones.