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Wright Brothers, The: The Dramatic Story-Behind-the-Story / (Record no. 34629)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781471150371
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (Nz-Kotui)3460207
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)910163014
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (Nz)15971137
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency NZ-GlWB
Transcribing agency NZ-GlWB
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name McCullough, David.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Wright Brothers, The: The Dramatic Story-Behind-the-Story /
Statement of responsibility, etc David McCullough
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Simon & Schuster Ltd ,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2015
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 336 p. ;
Dimensions 234 x 153mm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did? David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly human story of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. The house they lived in had no electricity or indoor plumbing, but there were books aplenty, supplied mainly by their preacher father, who encouraged their studying. As individuals they had differing skill sets and passions but as a team they excelled in any given task . That they had no more than a public high school education, little money and no patron to open doors to their desires, never stopped them in their goal to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off in one of their contrivances, they risked being killed, or, at the very least, maimed. In this thrilling book, master historian David McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers' story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did? David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly human story of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. The house they lived in had no electricity or indoor plumbing, but there were books aplenty, supplied mainly by their preacher father, who encouraged their studying. As individuals they had differing skill sets and passions but as a team they excelled in any given task . That they had no more than a public high school education, little money and no patron to open doors to their desires, never stopped them in their goal to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off in one of their contrivances, they risked being killed, or, at the very least, maimed. In this thrilling book, master historian David McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers' story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them.
600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wright, Orville
Dates associated with a name 1871-1948.
600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wright, Wilbur
Dates associated with a name 1867-1912.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Air pilots
General subdivision Biography
Geographic subdivision United States.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Non-Fiction
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Renewals Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date checked out Cost, replacement price Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan Non Fiction Waimate Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage 10/07/2015 ALLB 22.00 3 923.8 a00692404 01/07/2022 13/06/2022 22.00 10/07/2015 Non-Fiction Not for loan
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