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kittyhawk是他们魂牵梦绕的地方,那是一个海边散落着一个一个巨大沙丘,蚊子多到遮天蔽日,睡觉为了防蚊子捂得严严实实又被无风闷热的夏夜逼出一身又一身粘粘汗水的地方。
评分平实而动人的一本书。电话、汽车、无线电、飞机…这是一个伟大而激动人心的时代。如果能多些同时期其他飞机制造探索者的描述和记录,那就再好不过了。
评分怀特兄弟那个年代真是群星璀璨,电灯无线通讯刚被发明,汽车运输商业化,人类梦想像鸟儿一样自由飞翔。怀特兄弟最了不起的不仅是他们的聪明才智,更是他们的毅力,百折不挠。很励志的书,推荐。
评分Read two years ago. A very exciting read.
评分第一次读David McCullough的书,的确是文笔简练流畅。喜欢。
David McCullough has twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for Truman and John Adams, and twice received the National Book Award, for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback; His other widely praised books are 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, and The Johnstown Flood. He has been honored with the National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award, the National Humanities Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot.
Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did?
David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. The house they lived in had no electricity or indoor plumbing, but there were books aplenty, supplied mainly by their preacher father, and they never stopped reading.
When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education, little money and no contacts in high places, never stopped them in their “mission” to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off in one of their contrivances, they risked being killed.
In this thrilling book, master historian David McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers’ story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them.
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