Titel
SMITHY : The Life of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
Schrijver
Mackersey, Ian
Taal
Engels
ISBN
9780316643085
Uitgever
Little, Brown and Company 1998
Prijs
€ 15,00
Bijzonderheden
In nieuwstaat (ongelezen); gebonden met omslag; 416pp
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When Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's aircraft Lady Southern Cross mysteriously disappeared off the Burmese coast in the dark of a tropical night in November 1935, the golden age of aviation lost, at the age of thirty-eight, one of its most formidable and charismatic heroes.
For seven years this small man of craggy face, rapid wit and broad grin was one of the most revered figures in Australia, his epic and dangerous journeys in fragile aeroplanes followed on radios around the world. Rising to international celebrity in the 1920s - when many of the world's oceanic air routes were still unflown, when aircraft were primitive and accurate navigation systems did not exist - 'Smithy' piloted the first flights across the Pacific in both directions, traversed the Tasman Sea and made the first successful westbound crossing of the Atlantic.
Written with the co-operation of Kingsford Smith's widow and family, Smithy reveals a man obsessed by fame and worshipped by women, yet, paradoxically, one who suffered from a morbid fear of the sea. This seemingly indestructible flying genius was afflicted by a chronic nervous disorder which induced incapacitating panic attacks in the air and gave rise to the mysterious illnesses which flared up on the eve of many of his epic flights. But Kingsford Smith was a man addicted to terror, as well as to fame and flying: his nightmarish experiences at the controls served only to drive him to embark upon journeys of ever greater danger.
Illuminating and authoritative, lan Mackersey's biography looks beyond Kingsford Smith's awesome flying exploits to examine a reckless character shaped by the trauma of service in the First World War, the forces of Empire that thwarted his deepest ambitions and the jealousy and litigation that constantly swirled about him. It also recreates, from exhaustive new research the last hours of Kingsford Smith's final, fatal flight.
For seven years this small man of craggy face, rapid wit and broad grin was one of the most revered figures in Australia, his epic and dangerous journeys in fragile aeroplanes followed on radios around the world. Rising to international celebrity in the 1920s - when many of the world's oceanic air routes were still unflown, when aircraft were primitive and accurate navigation systems did not exist - 'Smithy' piloted the first flights across the Pacific in both directions, traversed the Tasman Sea and made the first successful westbound crossing of the Atlantic.
Written with the co-operation of Kingsford Smith's widow and family, Smithy reveals a man obsessed by fame and worshipped by women, yet, paradoxically, one who suffered from a morbid fear of the sea. This seemingly indestructible flying genius was afflicted by a chronic nervous disorder which induced incapacitating panic attacks in the air and gave rise to the mysterious illnesses which flared up on the eve of many of his epic flights. But Kingsford Smith was a man addicted to terror, as well as to fame and flying: his nightmarish experiences at the controls served only to drive him to embark upon journeys of ever greater danger.
Illuminating and authoritative, lan Mackersey's biography looks beyond Kingsford Smith's awesome flying exploits to examine a reckless character shaped by the trauma of service in the First World War, the forces of Empire that thwarted his deepest ambitions and the jealousy and litigation that constantly swirled about him. It also recreates, from exhaustive new research the last hours of Kingsford Smith's final, fatal flight.
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