"This book...recounts the persistence of a Frenchman, Louis Bleriot, to build a flying machine to cross the English Channel.... The text is succinct, caption-like in its directness and brevity....The paintings...add the necessary testure and tone to this marriage. This is vintage Provensen" – School Library Journal
Language
English
Pages
40
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Puffin Books
Release
August 01, 1987
ISBN
0140507299
ISBN 13
9780140507294
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909
"This book...recounts the persistence of a Frenchman, Louis Bleriot, to build a flying machine to cross the English Channel.... The text is succinct, caption-like in its directness and brevity....The paintings...add the necessary testure and tone to this marriage. This is vintage Provensen" – School Library Journal