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Colonel Cody and the Flying Cathedral: The Adventures of the Cowboy Who Conquered Britain's Skies - Couverture rigide

Jenkins, Garry

 
9780684860251: Colonel Cody and the Flying Cathedral: The Adventures of the Cowboy Who Conquered Britain's Skies
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ISBN 10 : 0684860252 ISBN 13 : 9780684860251
Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

In America, Cody worked the same trails as Buffalo Bill and competed with Annie Oakley. In Britain, with his family, he formed the Great Codys and struck showbusiness gold. His fame reached its apex when he pioneered powered flight. This is a biography of his adventures.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Part Barnum, part Baron Munchausen, part Orville Wright, Cody cut one of the most colourful and controversial figures of his age. During his early years in America, he worked the same cattle trails as Buffalo Bill, played the same Dodge City roulette tables as Wyatt Earp and competed with the legendary Annie Oakley for the title of King of the Wild West sharpshooters. In Britain, with his wife and her two sons he formed the country's foremost Wild West family, but his fame reached its apex when he pioneered powered flight. A passionate kite-builder, he became official inventor to the army's Balloon Factory at Farnborough. Over the following years he fought an increasingly bitter battle with the Army and his better funded rivals to become the first man to fly in England. In the wake of his pioneering flight he became what VANITY FAIR called 'the British public's chief and best showman of flight.'
Cody's end was typically spectacular. When his new seaplane snapped in half in midair, sending him falling 500 feet to his death, the sense of shock was felt throughout England. King George V summed up the place Cody had gained in the nation's affections when he insisted that he be given a full military funeral - the first civilian to be buried in the Army cemetery at Aldershot.

Biographie de l'auteur

Garry Jenkins is author of four other bestselling books, including the highly acclaimed THE BEAUTIFUL TEAM, about Brazilian football.

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Éditeur
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0684860252
ISBN 13 
9780684860251
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780312241803: Colonel Cody and the Flying Cathedral: The Adventures of the Cowboy Who Conquered the Sky

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0312241801 ISBN 13 :  9780312241803
Editeur : Picador USA, 2000
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