Fly Now! : The Poster Collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Hardback
by Joanne Gernstein London
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The posters-most of them never before published-feature barnstormers, gliders, and flying boats; the earliest passenger flights, the first luxury-liners, mail carriers, jets, and much more.
Spanning a century and a half, they combine the popular art and the commerce of their eras, with both explored in the entertaining, informative text by a longstanding National Air and Space Museum curator.
From 19th-century circus impresarios offering rides in gaudy hot-air balloons to the sleek 21st-century airliners, they offer a fascinating illustrated history of flight as it evolved from an exotic realm inhabited only by visionaries and daredevils into our modern world of speedy jets and frequent flyers-no longer extraordinary, perhaps, but still echoing with the exhilarating thrill and glamorous excitement captured here.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:National Geographic Society
- Publication Date:15/05/2007
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- ISBN:9781426200885
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Unavailable
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:National Geographic Society
- Publication Date:15/05/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9781426200885