The Spirit of St. Louis - Softcover

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087351288X ISBN 13: 9780873512886

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 1993

Synopsis

Autobiography of Lindbergh's historic adventure piloting his single-engine plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from New York to Paris on the first nonstop flight over the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927. "It was in this book, written over a period of seventeen years, that he tried to represent as accurately as he possibly could both the story and the meaning of his 1927 flight. In doing this, inevitably, he also told the reader who he was."--Reeve Lindbergh, "Introduction"

About this title

From the Publisher:

Winner, 1954 Pulitzer Prize

About the Author:

Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974) grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota. He learned to fly around the age of twenty, and developed his aviation skills as a barnstormer and airmail pilot. Two years after his trans-Atlantic voyage in 1927, Lindbergh married Anne Spencer Morrow, who would later become a bestselling author. A world-famous aviator, Lindbergh served as an aircraft consultant to the Ford Motor Company and the United Aircraft Corporation during World War Two. He was appointed brigadier general in the air force reserve in 1954.

Reeve Lindbergh is the author of several books for adults and children. They include the memoir of her childhood and youth, Under a Wing, No More Words, a description of the last years of her mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Forward From Here, a memoir about entering her sixties. She lives with her husband, Nat Tripp, and several animals on a farm in northern Vermont.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 087351288X
• ISBN 13: 9780873512886
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 562