Charles Lindbergh And The Spirit Of St Louis In American History

Download or read book The Spirit of St. Louis written by Charles Augustus Lindbergh and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1953 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. Now we live, today, in our dreams of yesterday; and, living in those dreams, we dream again...." -- From "The Spirit of St. Louis" Charles A. Lindbergh captured the world's attention -- and changed the course of history -- when he completed his famous nonstop flight from New York to Paris in 1927. In "The Spirit of St. Louis," Lindbergh takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, bringing to life the thrill and peril of trans-Atlantic travel in a single-engine plane. Eloquently told and sweeping in its scope, Lindbergh's Pulitzer Prize-winning account is an epic adventure tale for all time.