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- catalog abstract ""In the early 1930s, Wolfgang Langewiesche, a German-born graduate student at the University of Chicago, learned to fly. He took to the air with the same passion Americans had taken to the road a decade earlier, writing a series of acclaimed books that described the heady excitement of flight in this era and the stunning views of his adopted country from an entirely new vantage point - the sky. America from the Air brings selections from two of these classic accounts - I'll Take the High Road, first published in 1939, and A Flier's World, his 1951 memoir - to provide a distinctive look at the American landscape before the construction of multilane expressways, suburban tract housing, and strip malls. With a photographer's eye and a rare talent for conveying the physical sensation of flying, Langewiesche describes small farms, deserted seashores, busy railway lines, and cities in which skyscrapers were still engineering marvels, evoking an irrecoverable part of America's past."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b13224124.
- catalog contributor b13224125.
- catalog contributor b13224126.
- catalog coverage "United States Aerial photographs.".
- catalog coverage "United States Description and travel.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""In the early 1930s, Wolfgang Langewiesche, a German-born graduate student at the University of Chicago, learned to fly. He took to the air with the same passion Americans had taken to the road a decade earlier, writing a series of acclaimed books that described the heady excitement of flight in this era and the stunning views of his adopted country from an entirely new vantage point - the sky. America from the Air brings selections from two of these classic accounts - I'll Take the High Road, first published in 1939, and A Flier's World, his 1951 memoir - to provide a distinctive look at the American landscape before the construction of multilane expressways, suburban tract housing, and strip malls. With a photographer's eye and a rare talent for conveying the physical sensation of flying, Langewiesche describes small farms, deserted seashores, busy railway lines, and cities in which skyscrapers were still engineering marvels, evoking an irrecoverable part of America's past."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Aerial beachcomber -- The mysterious factor x -- Dead reckoning -- A living in the air -- Knapsack of salvation -- First time in earnest -- Flying team -- Pilot's-eye view -- Neurosis in miniature -- The poor man's airplane -- You must beware of Hatteras -- Key West with lady -- Adventure in the forest -- My kind of flying -- American air.".
- catalog extent "xxviii, 209 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "America from the air.".
- catalog identifier "0801878187 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0801878195 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "America from the air.".
- catalog isPartOf "American land classics".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "America from the air.".
- catalog spatial "United States Aerial photographs.".
- catalog spatial "United States Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "917.304/91/0222 21".
- catalog subject "Aerial photography United States.".
- catalog subject "Air pilots United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Airplanes Piloting.".
- catalog subject "E169 .L2725 2004".
- catalog subject "Landscape United States Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Landscape photography United States.".
- catalog subject "Landscapes United States Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Langewiesche, Wolfgang, 1907-".
- catalog subject "Langewiesche, Wolfgang, 1907-2002.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Aerial beachcomber -- The mysterious factor x -- Dead reckoning -- A living in the air -- Knapsack of salvation -- First time in earnest -- Flying team -- Pilot's-eye view -- Neurosis in miniature -- The poor man's airplane -- You must beware of Hatteras -- Key West with lady -- Adventure in the forest -- My kind of flying -- American air.".
- catalog title "America from the air : an aviator's story / Wolfgang Langewiesche ; edited and introduced by Drake Hokanson and Carol Kratz ; with a foreword by William Langewiesche.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Photographs Aerial. fast".
- catalog type "Pictorial works. fast".
- catalog type "text".