Author: Barry Hannah
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 1555846424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin). One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships remains a vital text in the history of the American short story. The award-winning contemporary classic features twenty wildly original, exuberant, often hilarious stories that celebrate the universal peculiarities of the new American South—a land of high school band contests where good old boys from Vicksburg are reunited in Vietnam, and petty nostalgia and the incessant pain of disappointed love prevail in spite of our worst efforts. Hailed by none other than Larry McMurtry as “the best young writer to appear in the South since Flannery O’Connor,” Barry Hannah’s immense storytelling gifts are on striking display in this essential work. “Hannah takes fiction by surprise—scenes, shocks, sounds and amazements: an explosive but meticulous originality.” —Cynthia Ozick
Airships
Author: Barry Hannah
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 1555846424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin). One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships remains a vital text in the history of the American short story. The award-winning contemporary classic features twenty wildly original, exuberant, often hilarious stories that celebrate the universal peculiarities of the new American South—a land of high school band contests where good old boys from Vicksburg are reunited in Vietnam, and petty nostalgia and the incessant pain of disappointed love prevail in spite of our worst efforts. Hailed by none other than Larry McMurtry as “the best young writer to appear in the South since Flannery O’Connor,” Barry Hannah’s immense storytelling gifts are on striking display in this essential work. “Hannah takes fiction by surprise—scenes, shocks, sounds and amazements: an explosive but meticulous originality.” —Cynthia Ozick
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 1555846424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin). One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships remains a vital text in the history of the American short story. The award-winning contemporary classic features twenty wildly original, exuberant, often hilarious stories that celebrate the universal peculiarities of the new American South—a land of high school band contests where good old boys from Vicksburg are reunited in Vietnam, and petty nostalgia and the incessant pain of disappointed love prevail in spite of our worst efforts. Hailed by none other than Larry McMurtry as “the best young writer to appear in the South since Flannery O’Connor,” Barry Hannah’s immense storytelling gifts are on striking display in this essential work. “Hannah takes fiction by surprise—scenes, shocks, sounds and amazements: an explosive but meticulous originality.” —Cynthia Ozick
Airship Technology
Author: G. A. Khoury
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521607537
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
A unique and indispensable guide to modern airship design and operation, for researchers and professionals working in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521607537
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
A unique and indispensable guide to modern airship design and operation, for researchers and professionals working in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Jane's Pocket Book of Airships
Author: Arthur Frederick Daubeney Eveleigh-de Moleyns Baron Ventry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Giant Airships
Author: Douglas Botting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Wartime air ships, epic of flight.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Wartime air ships, epic of flight.
Airship Design
Author: Charles Paine Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airships
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airships
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Floating to Space
Author: John M. Powell
Publisher: Apogee Books
ISBN: 9781894959735
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Book & DVD. From the Space Shuttle, to Soyuz, to Spaceship One, riding the explosion at the bottom of a rocket has historically been the only path to space. Is there another way? "Floating to Space" in an overview of the new technology of space-bound airships. What, the Goodyear blimp goes to Mars? Yes! The technology called ATO, "Airship to Orbit" is being developed right now. Hypersonic airships and cities floating at the edge of space are all part of this seemingly impossible idea. Beyond describing the concept, this book shows the amazing adventure of those who are building these giant craft and throwing them into the sky. Not just a fantasy, this book shows photographs and details from the nearly one hundred development flights conducted so far. . . Included are descriptions of the environment where these craft fly to the edge of space. New findings such as life twenty miles up and mile high plasma volcanoes are introduced for the first time outside of scientific journals. This book shows you how ATO is to be accomplished from a project and economic prospective. It also details the progress so far and lays out a blueprint of what is to come. Includes a DVD of remarkable footage taken during the many test flights of JP Aerospace's unique experiments floating to space.
Publisher: Apogee Books
ISBN: 9781894959735
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Book & DVD. From the Space Shuttle, to Soyuz, to Spaceship One, riding the explosion at the bottom of a rocket has historically been the only path to space. Is there another way? "Floating to Space" in an overview of the new technology of space-bound airships. What, the Goodyear blimp goes to Mars? Yes! The technology called ATO, "Airship to Orbit" is being developed right now. Hypersonic airships and cities floating at the edge of space are all part of this seemingly impossible idea. Beyond describing the concept, this book shows the amazing adventure of those who are building these giant craft and throwing them into the sky. Not just a fantasy, this book shows photographs and details from the nearly one hundred development flights conducted so far. . . Included are descriptions of the environment where these craft fly to the edge of space. New findings such as life twenty miles up and mile high plasma volcanoes are introduced for the first time outside of scientific journals. This book shows you how ATO is to be accomplished from a project and economic prospective. It also details the progress so far and lays out a blueprint of what is to come. Includes a DVD of remarkable footage taken during the many test flights of JP Aerospace's unique experiments floating to space.
Zeppelin
Author: Peter W. Brooks
Publisher: Brassey's
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This volume covers rigid airships from their beginnings in 19th-century Germany until World War II and examines their role in both civil and military aviation. It gives the development histories of 163 different airships constructed during that period in Germany, Britain, France and the USA.
Publisher: Brassey's
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This volume covers rigid airships from their beginnings in 19th-century Germany until World War II and examines their role in both civil and military aviation. It gives the development histories of 163 different airships constructed during that period in Germany, Britain, France and the USA.
The Complete Book of Airships
Author: Don Dwiggins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Story of the Airship
Author: Hugh Allen
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1935327062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Originally published by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. as a promotional, The Story of the Airship chronicles the history and development of these great ¿silver cruisers of the sky.¿ Filled with photos and authoritative text, the book springs from an era when dirigibles, balloons and blimps competed against airplanes for public attention.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1935327062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Originally published by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. as a promotional, The Story of the Airship chronicles the history and development of these great ¿silver cruisers of the sky.¿ Filled with photos and authoritative text, the book springs from an era when dirigibles, balloons and blimps competed against airplanes for public attention.
Blimps & U-boats
Author: Joseph Gordon Vaeth
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Recounts the U.S. Navy's use of airships in the campaign against German U-boats during World War II.
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Recounts the U.S. Navy's use of airships in the campaign against German U-boats during World War II.