The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prizeâthe dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to flyâWilbur and Orville Wright.
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothersâbicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohioâchanged history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot.
Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed.
In this âenjoyable, fast-paced taleâ (The Economist), master historian David McCullough âshows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to flyâ (The Washington Post) and âcaptures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplishedâ (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. Essential reading, this is âa story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluencyâŠabout what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplishedâŠThe Wright Brothers soarsâ (The New York Times Book Review).
Ărjan
2023-03-09
Det Àr otroligt vad mÀnniskan kan Ästadkomma, nÀr viljan, modet och intellektet flödar starkt! Alla vet ju att det var bröderna Wright som flög först, men fÄ kÀnner nog till sÀrskilt mycket mer om dem. Det har varit mycket givande timmar med deras familjs liv och leverne i öronen! Författaren visade sig Àven vara en kompetent upplÀsare, med en behaglig röst som gav mig kÀnslan av att lyssna pÄ nÄgon av morfars gamla berÀttelser frÄn förr. Rekommenderas om du Àr nyfiken pÄ hur flyget, som blivit en sÄdan sjÀlvklar del av livet, faktiskt utvecklades och framförallt hur mÀnnen som höll i startpistolen levde och verkade.