Fly Now! | 
 enlarge | Author: Joanne Gernstein London
Creators: Herb Kelleher, Robert Van Der Linden
Publisher: National Geographic
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8 x 0.6
ISBN: 1426202903
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9781426202902
ASIN: 1426202903
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
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Product Description
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum draws more visitors than any other museum in the world#151;90,000 a day in the summertime#151;and the exhibit of air travel posters featured in this unique companion volume combines arresting, colorful art, rare archival material, and a unique approach to aeronautical history. The posters#151;most of them never before published#151;feature barnstormers, gliders, and flying boats, the earliest passenger flights, the first luxury-liners, mail carriers, jets, and much more. Spanning a century and a half, they combine the popular art and the commerce of their eras, with both explored in the entertaining, informative text by a longstanding National Air and Space Museum curator. From 19th-century circus impresarios offering rides in gaudy hot-air balloons to the sleek 21st-century airliners, the posters provide a fascinating illustrated history of flight as it evolved from an exotic realm inhabited only by visionaries and daredevils into our modern world of speedy jets and frequent flyers#151;no longer extraordinary, perhaps, but still echoing with the exhilarating thrill and glamorous excitement captured here.brbrCountless visitors to the museum#8217;s traveling poster exhibition and the permanent exhibition "America by Air" will delight in the gorgeous and wonderful graphics collected in this appealing, affordable book#151;and so will aviation buffs, armchair travelers, and poster connoisseurs everywhere.
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