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    612-822-4611

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Atlantic Fever

Atlantic Fever

Jackson, Joe

Paperback

Aviation & NauticalAviationGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $36.99

ISBN10: 1250033306
ISBN13: 9781250033307
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Apr 30 2013
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

For five weeks--from April 14 to May 21, 1927--the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.

Joe Jackson's Atlantic Fever is about this race, a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Delving into the lives of the big-name competitors--the polar explorer Richard Byrd, the French war hero René Fonck, the millionaire Charles Levine, and the race's eventual winner, the enigmatic Charles Lindbergh--as well as those whose names have been forgotten by history (such as Bernt Balchen, Stanton Wooster, and Clarence Chamberlin), Jackson brings a completely fresh and original perspective to the race to conquer the Atlantic.

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