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The Flying Carpet
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Author : Richard Halliburton
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-10-30
The Flying Carpet written by Richard Halliburton and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"I've just given myself an airplane and I want you to fly us to all the outlandish places in the world, Turkey, Persia, Paris and - Pasadena. We're going to fly across deserts, over mountains, rescue imprisoned princesses and fight dragons. We must have the world. We can have the world!" Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that 'an adventure not in the air is obsolete', Richard Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens in 1931 and fearlessly set out to circle the world in an open cockpit biplane optimistically named The Flying Carpet. For Halliburton it was the ultimate in romantic, risky exploration and was a means of seeing the world in a way that few had ever seen it before. True to form, his journey was breathtakingly audacious. They performed aerobatics in Fez, landed in mysterious Timbuktu, spent time with the French Foreign Legion in Algeria and explored Cairo, Damascus and Petra. In Iran, they met legendary aviatrix Ella Beinhorn and gave Princess Mahin Banu a ride. In Iraq, it was the turn of King Faisal's young son, Ghazi, who was escorted by two RAF fighter planes. In India, they flew over the Taj Mahal - upside down - and, soaring over the Himalayas, Halliburton took the first aerial photograph of Everest. In Borneo they were entertained by Sylvia Brooke, the 'White Queen of Borneo', and by the chief of the Iban Dyak headhunters, who gave them dozens of shrunken heads. A journey as dazzling as Halliburton himself and, with the world at war less than a decade later, marking the end of an era, the story of The Flying Carpet is as captivating today as it was to the world 80 years ago.
The Flying Carpet
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
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The Flying Carpet
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Author : Richard Halliburton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
The Flying Carpet written by Richard Halliburton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Aeronautics categories.
Flying Carpets
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Author : Philippe-Alain Michaud
language : en
Publisher: Drago (Roma)
Release Date : 2012
Flying Carpets written by Philippe-Alain Michaud and has been published by Drago (Roma) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Art categories.
"Flying Carpet" is the catalog for the exhibition of the same name presented at Villa Medici, the French Academy in Rome, and conceived by Philippe-Alain Michaud in 2012. "Flying carpets" offers a journey through centuries, countries and techniques. Between past and present, Oriental and Western worlds, ornament and abstraction, carpets travel through times, cultures and trends--they can be found in Renaissance paintings, contemporary installations or even films, until they turn exhibition spaces themselves into travelling and transformation places.
The Flying Carpet
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Author : Richard Halliburton
language : en
Publisher: Papamoa Press
Release Date : 2018-12-01
The Flying Carpet written by Richard Halliburton and has been published by Papamoa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THEY FLEW THROUGH THE AIR WITH GREATEST OF EASE Richard Halliburton can be counted on to lead his readers into strange places, into hilarious difficulties, into new appreciations of history and romance—and never to qualify his outrageous philosophy of reckless living with a single sober moral. The Flying Carpet is his latest, his most modern book—in which he takes us around the world by airplane. Timbuctoo, because it was far away and mysterious, was his first destination. From there, the author and his pilot-companion, Moye Stephens, follow a "royal road to romance" through the sky, dropping down on Fez, Morocco and the French Foreign Legion, The Holy Land, Galilee, Baghdad in mysterious Arabia, Persia, and India; flying over the world's highest mountain, Mt. Everest, investigating Singapore, speeding to Borneo to visit the white Ranee whose husband rules half a million head hunters, and ending in Manila, making airplane records, enjoying unprecedented thrilling experiences, flying into remote places where airplanes had never been heard of before. These enviable adventures are told gaily and dramatically. Their footloose spirit, as free as the air through which the Flying Carpet sailed, will prove fatal to the contentment of those readers who have not yet achieved the realization of their own travel dreams.
The Flying Carpet
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Author : Roderick Hunt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Flying Carpet written by Roderick Hunt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Readers categories.
The Balloon Mount Tambura And The Flying Carpet
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Author : Fernanda Raineri
language : en
Publisher: Youcanprint
Release Date : 2015-01-01
The Balloon Mount Tambura And The Flying Carpet written by Fernanda Raineri and has been published by Youcanprint this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The story is set in Versilia in Tuscany, surrounded by the luxuriant nature of the Apuan Alps, and in the bowels of Mount Tambura. Stella and her sister Glenda, along with their two friends Rebecca and Frank who have just arrived from the United States, are involved in a series of incredible events, to the limit of the supernatural. It all starts with a trip in a hot air balloon strongly backed by the boys, despite the concerns shown by their parents. But what started as a unique experience soon turned to tragedy: the four, along with Alfred, the young Turkish driver of the balloon (called "Nautilus"), fall in the middle of a forest because of a turbulence . When they regained consciousness, they are miraculously unharmed, although there is no trace of Alfred. Stella and her friends start looking for a path to get back home, but instead they discover a mysterious underground place. Here begins a journey that will leave the protagonists the sole custodians of secrets that had remained untouched for years, offering to Stella, who is an aspiring writer, a story to tell.
The Flying Carpet Thief
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Author : Sally Gardner
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-04-06
The Flying Carpet Thief written by Sally Gardner and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-06 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
'Agatha Christie for kids' - a brand new mystery in the detective agency series brimming with mystery and magic by million-copy-selling author, Sally Gardner. The detectives at Wings and Co are in a bit of bother. There is a lost leprechaun on the loose and carpets are flying all over the village of Podgy Bottom, as if by magic. Oh, and worst of all, Fidget the cat has vanished on VERY URGENT business. It looks like a tricky case for our fairy detectives . . .
Flying Carpet
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Author : Diana Yue
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2000-04-01
Flying Carpet written by Diana Yue and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
From the pen of one of Hong Kong's leading writers, Xi Xi (1938 - ), Flying Carpet mirrors the past and present of Fertillia, an island city situated on the south-eastern coast of the huge country of Dragonland. Fertillia is of course Hong Kong, and the novel is part history and part imagination, a rich tapestry of the local material culture and a vivid portrayal of sensitive Chinese minds, a saga of the Fa family who has lived through Fertillia's development from a small village to a cosmopolitan metropolis. On top of the personal drama involving three generations of people, the author casts her narrative net over many walks of life in the city and suggests the uniqueness of Fertillia's existence within a cosmic order of rare elegance and harmony.
The Flying Carpet
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Author : Cesare Fabbri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
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