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CONTENTS
ОглавлениеCover
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
