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Flight of Passage

Author	: Rinker Buck
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2013-03-05
ISBN 10	: 9781401305772
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (57 users)

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Download or read book Flight of Passage written by Rinker Buck and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a summer when he and his brother, at ages 15 and 17 respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California. Having grown up in an aviation family, the two boys bought an old Piper Cub, restored it themselves, and set out on the grand journey. Buck is a great storyteller, and once you get airborne with the boys you find yourself absorbed in a story of adventure and family drama. And Flight of Passage is also an affecting look back to the summer of 1966, when the times seemed much less cynical and adventures much more enjoyable.

Flight of Passage

Author	: Rinker Buck
Publisher	: Hyperion
Release Date	: 1998-05-27
ISBN 10	: 0786883154
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (54 users)

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Download or read book Flight of Passage written by Rinker Buck and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1998-05-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a summer when he and his brother, at ages 15 and 17 respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California. Having grown up in an aviation family, the two boys bought an old Piper Cub, restored it themselves, and set out on the grand journey. Buck is a great storyteller, and once you get airborne with the boys you find yourself absorbed in a story of adventure and family drama. And Flight of Passage is also an affecting look back to the summer of 1966, when the times seemed much less cynical and adventures much more enjoyable.

Read On-- Life Stories

Author	: Rosalind Reisner
Publisher	: Libraries Unlimited
Release Date	: 2009
ISBN 10	: PSU:000067154050
Pages	: 175 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (671 users)

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Download or read book Read On-- Life Stories written by Rosalind Reisner and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers descriptions of 450 published memoirs, grouped by such topics as setting, language, unusual childhoods, life in rural America, spiritual journeys, and family relationships.

Boys' Life

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2001-07
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 56 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book Boys' Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

New York

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1997
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105020637760
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.O/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

School Library Journal

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2003-10
ISBN 10	: PSU:000054857971
Pages	: 720 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (548 users)

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Boys' Life

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Release Date	: 2001-07
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 56 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book Boys' Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

New York Magazine

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1997-08-04
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 104 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-08-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Based On A True Story

Author	: Christopher Holdsworth
Publisher	: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date	: 2012-09-29
ISBN 10	: 9781479703630
Pages	: 221 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book Based On A True Story written by Christopher Holdsworth and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursued by a misguided colonel, Zed and his companion must face many obstacles, including a giant spider, cannibals and a vast chessboard, in their journey to reach an unknown treasure hidden deep within a mountain range in Peru where he meets a Genie and is given the opportunity to travel through time and witness prominent events. e.g. Adam and Eve created for food, EDEN constructed in space, and the ultimate collision that shaped the Earth and its inhabitants.

Captain Roy Brown, A True Story of the Great War 1914-1918

Author	: Alan D. Bennett
Publisher	: ibooks
Release Date	: 2014-06-05
ISBN 10	: 9781883283568
Pages	: 1242 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (835 users)

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Download or read book Captain Roy Brown, A True Story of the Great War 1914-1918 written by Alan D. Bennett and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story of young men who fought and died for their country. It puts the reader behind the stick of a Sopwith Camel from the pilot's point of view. This is volume 1 and volume 2 combined for the ebook edition. Part One of this comprehensive study covers the life of Captain Arthur Roy Brown, who is well-known as an ace fighter pilot. The basic story is told in Brown’s own words, via his previously unpublished letters home and the entries in his Pilot’s Flying Log Book. Part Two of the book covers Captain Brown’s encounter with Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, in detail. In 1995 Alan Bennett toured the site in France where Captain Brown had attacked the Red Baron on 21 April, 1918. As an experienced pilot of similar aircraft, he had grave doubts as to the truth of some parts of the story. The eventual result was a book written in conjunction with Norman Franks: THE RED BARON’S LAST FLIGHT. After plentiful information from readers, Captain Roy Brown’s family, and Wop May’s son, plus further research in France, a considerably different picture of the entire event and of Roy Brown’s life emerged. This new book, Captain Roy Brown, tells the complete definitive story.

The True History of a Little Ragamuffin. [By J. G.]

Author	: James Greenwood (the novelist.)
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1866
ISBN 10	: NYPL:33433074859434
Pages	: 154 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (33 users)

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Download or read book The True History of a Little Ragamuffin. [By J. G.] written by James Greenwood (the novelist.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flying's Strangest Moments

Author	: John Harding
Publisher	: Robson
Release Date	: 2015-06-04
ISBN 10	: 9781910232446
Pages	: 274 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (324 users)

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Download or read book Flying's Strangest Moments written by John Harding and published by Robson. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of flying is packed with incredible feats of bravery and endurance, human ingenuity and recklesness, mystery, romance and tragedy. From the first hot air balloons of the 18th century to the supersonic jet flights of today, magnificent men (and women) have taken their incredible flying machines ever higher, further and faster. This collection of wonderfully engaging tales of madness, bravery, inventiveness, disaster and triumph will take every aviation enthusiast on a whirlwind ride.

All Stories Are True

Author	: Tracie Church Guzzio
Publisher	: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date	: 2011-05-17
ISBN 10	: 1617030058
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (58 users)

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Download or read book All Stories Are True written by Tracie Church Guzzio and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In All Stories Are True, Tracie Church Guzzio provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman’s entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Guzzio examines the ways in which Wideman (b. 1941) engages with three crucial themes-history, myth, and trauma-throughout his career, showing how they intertwine. Guzzio argues that, for four decades, the influential African American writer has endeavored to create a version of the African American experience that runs counter to mainstream interpretations, using history and myth to confront and then heal the trauma caused by slavery and racism. Wideman's work intentionally blurs boundaries between fiction and autobiography, myth and history, particularly as that history relates to African American experience in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The fusion of fiction, national history, and Wideman's personal life is characteristic of his style, which-due to its complexity and smudging of genre distinctions-has presented analytic difficulties for literary scholars. Despite winning the PEN/Faulkner award twice, for Sent for You Yesterday (1984) and Philadelphia Fire (1990), Wideman remains under-studied. Of particular value is Guzzio's analysis of the many ways in which Wideman alludes to his previous works. This intertextuality allows Wideman to engage his books in direct, intentional dialogue with each other through repeated characters, images, folktales, and songs. In Wideman's challenging of a monolithic view of history and presenting alternative perspectives to it, and his allowing past, present, and future time to remain fluid in the narratives, Guzzio finds an author firm in his notion that all stories and all perspectives have merit.

Words on Cassette

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1999
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015064549416
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (56 users)

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Flights of Passage

Author	: Samuel Hynes
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1988
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015013016764
Pages	: 280 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (51 users)

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Download or read book Flights of Passage written by Samuel Hynes and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on "The War," directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes. "The War" is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007. Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. In this eloquent narrative, by turns dramatic, funny, and elegiac, Hynes recalls those extraordinary years during which he came of age. he makes real the places--the training fields and the liberty towns and the Pacific islands, and the people--the other young pilots, the girls and the young wives, even the enemy pilots. He remembers friendship, and the excitement and tedium of war, the high exhilaration of flying, and the dying. More than a tale of combat, "Flight of Passage" is a story of one boy's growth to manhood in the turbulent, testing world of war in the air.

Flying Magazine

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1955-03
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 80 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1955-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Officer Candidate Tests For Dummies

Author	: Jane R. Burstein
Publisher	: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date	: 2011-05-10
ISBN 10	: 9780470598764
Pages	: 456 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (987 users)

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Download or read book Officer Candidate Tests For Dummies written by Jane R. Burstein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The easy way to prepare for officer candidate tests Want to ace the AFOQT, ASVAB or ASTB? Help is here! Officer Candidate Tests For Dummies gives you the instruction and practice you need to pass the service-specific candidate tests and further your military career as an officer in the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard. Packed with practice questions and easy-to-follow information, Officer Candidate Tests For Dummies gives you a comprehensive review of all subjects covered on the tests, an explanation of the test formats, and everything you need to understand and conquer the exams. Includes practice exams for each test More subject-matter instruction than any other book on the market Covers all of the latest updates to the exams Whether you're aspiring to become an officer in the military by attending a service academy, ROTC, or Officer Candidate School or are already in the military and working to advance your career, Officer Candidate Tests For Dummies has you covered!