Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Dustcover has some wear and marking. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Year 1963. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> THE IDEA FOR THIS BOOK was suggested several years ago when as a young student I submitted a short thesis on the history of para- chuting. The thought lay dormant for several fruitful years during which revolutionary developments occurred in this field of aviation and parachuting became a popular international sport. In my travels I continually heard the remark that there was a need for a book which would satisfy all branches of public interest. Such a book must be at one and the same time an outline history of parachuting from the time of Leonardo da Vinci to the present day an entertaining textbook for the rapidly growing number of parachute clubs and individual sportsmen and an exciting account of parachuting adventure which would thrill the layman and help to answer the question of why men and women choose to leap from the sky. (SP)