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The Resource The Spirit of St. Louis

The Spirit of St. Louis

Label
The Spirit of St. Louis
Title
The Spirit of St. Louis
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927
Awards note
Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1954.
Biography type
autobiography
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1902-1974
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Lindbergh, Charles A.
Dewey number
  • 629.1309
  • 629.1092
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Intended audience
940
Intended audience source
Lexile
Interest level
High School
LC call number
TL540.L5
LC item number
A85
Literary form
non fiction
Reading level
10.0
Study program name
Reading Counts RC
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Lindbergh, Charles A.
  • Spirit of St. Louis (Airplane)
  • Transatlantic flights
  • Air pilots
  • Aeronautics
Target audience
adult
Label
The Spirit of St. Louis
Instantiates
Publication
Note
"A condensation has appeared in the Saturday evening post under the title '33 hours to Paris.'"
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part I. The craft -- St. Louis-Chicago mail -- New York -- San Diego -- Across the continent -- Roosevelt Field -- Part II. New York to Paris -- The log of the Spirit of St. Louis -- The cruiser Memphis -- Decorations, awards & trophies / by Esther B. Mueller -- The Raymond Orteig prize -- Engineering data on the Spirit of St. Louis / by Donald A. Hall -- Specifications and general description of the Whirlwind engine / by Kenneth M. Lane
Dimensions
22 cm.
Extent
562 pages
Isbn
9780684852775
Isbn Type
(Scribner Classics)
Lccn
53011546 /L/r84
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)ocm00573440
  • (Sirsi) o00573440
  • (TMQ) o00573440
Label
The Spirit of St. Louis
Publication
Note
"A condensation has appeared in the Saturday evening post under the title '33 hours to Paris.'"
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part I. The craft -- St. Louis-Chicago mail -- New York -- San Diego -- Across the continent -- Roosevelt Field -- Part II. New York to Paris -- The log of the Spirit of St. Louis -- The cruiser Memphis -- Decorations, awards & trophies / by Esther B. Mueller -- The Raymond Orteig prize -- Engineering data on the Spirit of St. Louis / by Donald A. Hall -- Specifications and general description of the Whirlwind engine / by Kenneth M. Lane
Dimensions
22 cm.
Extent
562 pages
Isbn
9780684852775
Isbn Type
(Scribner Classics)
Lccn
53011546 /L/r84
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)ocm00573440
  • (Sirsi) o00573440
  • (TMQ) o00573440

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