Langewiesche, Wolfgang (Author)
Hokanson, Drake (Editor)
Kratz, Carol (Editor)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Physical Details: xxviii + 209 pp.; ill.
Language: English
Description Reprints of parts of two of Langewiesche's major works (in 1939 and 1951) describing the experience of flight and the physical landscape of America before technological changes of the second half of the 20th century.
Review Bednarek, Janet R. Daly (2005) Review of "America from the Air: An Aviator's Story". Technology and Culture (p. 227).
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