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King of the Air: The Turbulent Life of Charles Kingsford Smith

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King of the Air: The Turbulent Life of Charles Kingsford Smith

SKU: 9781760641078 Category: Product ID: 140695

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Title: King of the Air: The Turbulent Life of Charles Kingsford Smith
Author: BLAINEY ANN
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 03/12/2018
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $50.00
Publishing status: Active

With King of the Air, biographer Ann Blainey
(I Am Melba) has written another revealing
portrait, this time of Charles Kingsford Smith
(1897–1935), Australia’s pioneer daredevil
of the skies during the golden age of
aviation. Kingsford Smith achieved a series
of sensational firsts: the first trans-Pacific
flight from the US to Australia, the first
nonstop crossing of mainland Australia,
the first flights between Australia and New
Zealand, and the first eastward crossing
from Australia to the US. Blainey charts the
many achievements of this charming and
gregarious character and delves deeper to
reveal the troubled inner man who suffered
from acute anxiety attacks but pushed
himself to achieve yet more firsts.

ISBN: 9781760641078
Pages: 384