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Griffith, Victoria

The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont

32 pp. | Abrams | September, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4197-0011-8 $16.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Eva Montanari. "Alberto Santos-Dumont loved floating over Paris in his own personal flying machine": a dirigible he designed. This volume describes the eccentric aeronautical engineer's large personality and his twenty-one-second flight in an airplane he built in 1906. Invented dialogue and historical figure cameos (e.g., Santos-Dumont's friend Louis Cartier, rival pilot Louis Blériot) enliven the telling, as do the cloudy, impressionistic mixed-media illustrations. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

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