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CONTENTS

Оглавление

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue Dinner on the Ceiling Champs-Elysées, 1903

1 Arrival Minas Gerais, 1873

2 “A Most Dangerous Place for a Boy” Paris, 1891

3 First Flight Vaugirard, 1897

4 Dying for Science Paris, 1899

5 The Turkey Buzzard’s Secret

6 An Afternoon in the Rothschilds’ Chestnut Tree Paris, 1901

7 “It Is the Poor Who Will Suffer!” The Eiffel Tower, 1901

8 “Making Armies a Jest”

9 An Unwelcome Dip in the Mediterranean Bay of Monaco, 1902

10 “Airship Is Useless, Says Lord Kelvin” London and New York, 1902

11 The World’s First Aerial Car Paris, 1903

12 A Scurrilous Stabbing and a Russian Bribe St. Louis, 1904

13 “Aeroplane Raised by Small Motor, M. Santos-Dumont Performs a Feat Never Before Attained in Europe” Paris, 1906

14 “A War of Engineers and Chemists”

15 “Cavalry of the Clouds”

16 Departure Guarujá, 1932

Postmortem In Search of a Heart Campo dos Afonsos, 2000

What Santos-Dumont Wrote

What Santos-Dumont Read

What Santos-Dumont Made

Notes

Index

Origins and Acknowledgments

About the Author

Other Books By

About the Publisher

Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight

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