Reach for the Skies

by Richard Branson | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0753519879 Global Overview for this book
Registered by halonhakkaaja of Kuopio, Pohjois-Savo / Norra Savolax Finland on 11/24/2022
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Journal Entry 1 by halonhakkaaja from Kuopio, Pohjois-Savo / Norra Savolax Finland on Thursday, November 24, 2022
First published by Virgin Books in 2010. This updated edition published in 2011 by Virgin Books. Pocket book, 344 p.

Description in Virgin.com:
As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible. Today they are bringing outer space within our reach. They're inventors and toymakers, amateurs and adventurers, visionaries and dreamers. Some have called them irresponsible, even dangerous. But Richard Branson has met many of them. He has worked with them, funded them, and flown with them. He admires them, and trusts them, and thinks they and their kind are our future. In this book Richard Branson looks at the history of flight through the stories and people who have inspired him throughout his life. In these pages you will find tales of miraculous rescues; of records made and broken; of surprising feats of endurance and survival, including some of his own adventures, as well as developments in the future of air (and space) travel. It is a story of pioneers, and of course it includes the world famous Montgolfiers and the Wright brothers, but he also wants to describe some of the lesser-known trailblazers. People like Tony Jannus, who in 1914 created the first scheduled commercial flight in the world, flying his passengers over the waters of Tampa Bay at an altitude of just fifty feet! The 'bird man' Leo Valentin, who in the 1950s jumped from 9,000 feet with wooden wings attached to his shoulders. And Branson's friend Steve Fossett, who dedicated his life to breaking records and having adventures.

This is their story. It is also, in a small way, his own.

Journal Entry 2 by halonhakkaaja at Kuopio, Pohjois-Savo / Norra Savolax Finland on Saturday, December 3, 2022

Released 1 yr ago (12/3/2022 UTC) at Kuopio, Pohjois-Savo / Norra Savolax Finland

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Branson pääsi jatkamaan matkaansa tänään Kuopion miitissä. Mielenkiintoisia lukuhetkiä!

Journal Entry 3 by wingSoozreaderwing at Joensuu, Pohjois-Karjala / Norra Karelen Finland on Sunday, December 4, 2022
My spouse took this from the meet-up, thank you!

Journal Entry 4 by wingSoozreaderwing at Joensuu, Pohjois-Karjala / Norra Karelen Finland on Sunday, January 22, 2023
My spouse read this and said that the book was a collection of random bits of aviation history.

Released 1 yr ago (3/26/2023 UTC) at By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases

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This book is on its way to isabelpaoli in Austria. Happy reading!

Journal Entry 6 by wingisabelpaoliwing at Linz, Oberösterreich Austria on Monday, April 3, 2023
Got this book in the mail today, thank you! :)

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