WINGS OF MADNESS
Subtitle: ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT AND THE INVENTION OF FLIGHT
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: June 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780786885718
Subjects: Scientists - General; Aircraft; Biography / Autobiography; Transportation; Aviation - History; Modern - 20th Century; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; Transportation / Aviation / History; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Historical - General
First sentence: IN THE LATE eighteenth century, the professional class in Brazil was chafing after three hundred years of Portuguese rule.