Ready for another adaptation? We know you are, so check this out! Ice Age helmer, Chris Wedge and his Wedge Works World Wide banner have acquired Paul Hoffman‘s tome Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight.
At this moment we know that Paul Hoffman's book chronicles “the science and history of early aviation and offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of an extraordinary and tormented man, vividly depicting the sights and sounds of turn-of-the-century Paris.” If you like this description, check out the rest of this report for more details.
And here they are: “On the eve of the centennial of the Wright brothers' historic flights at Kitty Hawk, a new generation will learn about the other man who was once hailed worldwide as the conqueror of the air-Alberto Santos-Dumont. Because the Wright brothers worked in secrecy, word of their first flights had not reached Europe when Santos-Dumont took to the skies in 1906.
The dashing, impeccably dressed inventor entertained Paris with his airborne antics-barhopping in a little dirigible that he tied to lampposts, circling above crowds around the Eiffel Tower, and crashing into rooftops. A man celebrated, even pursued by the press in Paris, London, and New York, Santos-Dumont dined regularly with the Cartiers, the Rothschilds, and the Roosevelts. But beneath his lively public exterior, Santos-Dumont was a frenzied genius tortured by the weight of his own creation.”
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Wings of Madness
