NO LONGER AN ISLAND
Written by Alfred Gollin
Published by Heinemann
in 1984
ISBN: 0434299022
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- TRANSPORT
- AVIATION
- COMPANY HISTORY
- AIRCRAFT
NO LONGER AN ISLAND
Written by Alfred Gollin.
Stock no. 1605024
1st.
1984.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Britain and the Wright Brothers 1902-1909. Grey cloth, gilt title to spine. 478 pages (including index). ISBN: 0434299022. Spine bumped. Top edges dusty. Wrapper edge creased and slightly faded.
NO LONGER AN ISLAND
Written by Alfred Gollin.
Stock no. 2108896
1st.
1984.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Britain and the Wright Brothers 1902-1909. Grey cloth, gilt title to spine. 478 pages (including index). ISBN: 0434299022. Some browning to cover edges. Binding is starting to become a little weak. Wrapper has large closed tear to base of spine; creased with nicks to corners.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements and Preface
- I The Wright Brothers
- II How the British Learned of the Wrights
- III The British Approach the Wrights
- IV The Wrights Approach the British
- V First Refusal: Colonel Capper's Change of Course
- VI The Intervention of Colonel Count Gleichen
- VII England No Longer an Island
- VIII The Mystery of Lord Haldane and the Failure of Lady Jane Taylor
- IX Aeronautical Developments in 1907
- X The Wright Brothers Try Again
- XI The Zeppelin Menace
- XII '... a Power which Controls the Fate of Nations...'
- XIII The Aerial Navigation Committee
- XIV 1909: Britain's Vulnerability Recongnized
- Index