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The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed

by John Mcphee

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ISBN13: 9780374516352
ISBN10: 0374516359
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This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's sucessive progenitors.<BR>
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About the Author

John McPhee is the author of twenty-six books, including Annals of the Former World, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1965 and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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ISBN:
9780374516352
Author:
McPhee, John
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Author:
McPhee, John
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Airplanes
Subject:
Aeronautics
Subject:
Technology
Subject:
Aeronautics & Astronautics
Subject:
Airships
Publication Date:
September 1992
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
186
Dimensions:
8.21x5.53x.60 in. .55 lbs.
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