The National Air and Space Museum [Hardcover]

C.D.B. Bryan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1979

The Smithsonian Institutions's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC is the subject of this book. It covers the museum's five major new galleries - Early Flight, Golden Age of Flight, Jet Aviation, Looking at Earth and Stars.

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Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

The first edition of this stunning book appeared in 1979 ( LJ 12/15/79) and featured superlative photographs of the museum's existing galleries accompanied by an excellent text and dramatic fold-outs, a marvelous re-creation of a visit to the museum, as well as an overview of the aerospace adventure. Since then, the museum has changed several galleries, and this new edition was produced with that fact in mind. The revised version now has 19 chapters, of which five are new ("Early Flight," "Golden Age of Flight," "Jet Aviation," "Looking at Earth," and "Stars"). The new material definitely meets the standards of the old version. If the library does not have the first edition, this one is certainly worth purchasing; otherwise, this is a very expensive book for only five new chapters.
- Roger Bilstein, Univ. of Houston-Clear Lake
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 504 pages
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; First edition. edition (September 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081090666X
• ISBN-13: 978-0810906662
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 9.8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,992,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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