Brandt Aymar (1911–1997)

As a reader who from an early age read Robinson Crusoe and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, I learned to enjoy sea stories. This collection draws sea stories from the finest authors over the ages including selections from authors I have read and enjoyed, including Homer, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Joshua Slocum, Jack London, Joseph Conrad,Thor Heyerdahl, Melville, Poe, Hugo, and more. The breadth of the collection cannot be denied but I was most impressed by the quality of the selections. This is a compilation that I would recommend to all who love sea stories.… (más)

Gathers stories and first hand accounts of flying by Richard Bach, Pierre Boulle, Martin Caiden, Glenn Curtiss, Amelia Earhart, William Faulkner, Charles Lindbergh, and Jules Verne
Publishers Blurb: A monumental anthology covering the literature of flight, from Greek mythology to the Space Age of today. It covers every major category, including man's early crude attempts to defy gravity, balloons, long-distance pioneer flights, the jet age.
Source?: This collection of machine dreams--flights of fact and fancy from Leonardo da Vinci's "great bird'' to William Faulkner's "lowing monoplane''--leave one, as H.G. Wells put it, "like a child in wonderland.'' This unique anthology "nibbles the outline of the earth,'' in the words of St. Exupery,… (más)