Willie Hiatt: 1 book
The Rarified Air of the Modern
Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
From the moment news reached Peru in 1910 that Jorge Chávez Dartnell, a pilot of Peruvian parentage, had become the first man to fly across the Alps, aviation fired the imagination of the masses in his home country. His and other Peruvian pilots' achievements generated great optimism that this technology...
