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NO LONGER AN ISLAND

Written by Alfred Gollin
Published by Heinemann in 1984
ISBN: 0434299022

NO LONGER AN ISLAND
Written by Alfred Gollin.
Stock no. 1605024
1st. 1984. Hardback. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Britain and the Wright Brothers 1902-1909. Grey cloth, gilt title to spine. 478 pages (including index). ISBN: 0434299022. Spine bumped. Top edges dusty. Wrapper edge creased and slightly faded.

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NO LONGER AN ISLAND
Written by Alfred Gollin.
Stock no. 2108896
1st. 1984. Hardback. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Britain and the Wright Brothers 1902-1909. Grey cloth, gilt title to spine. 478 pages (including index). ISBN: 0434299022. Some browning to cover edges. Binding is starting to become a little weak. Wrapper has large closed tear to base of spine; creased with nicks to corners.

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Front cover

Cover of NO LONGER AN ISLAND by Alfred Gollin

Contents

  • Acknowledgements and Preface
  • I The Wright Brothers
  • II How the British Learned of the Wrights
  • III The British Approach the Wrights
  • IV The Wrights Approach the British
  • V First Refusal: Colonel Capper's Change of Course
  • VI The Intervention of Colonel Count Gleichen
  • VII England No Longer an Island
  • VIII The Mystery of Lord Haldane and the Failure of Lady Jane Taylor
  • IX Aeronautical Developments in 1907
  • X The Wright Brothers Try Again
  • XI The Zeppelin Menace
  • XII '... a Power which Controls the Fate of Nations...'
  • XIII The Aerial Navigation Committee
  • XIV 1909: Britain's Vulnerability Recongnized
  • Index