The Conquest of the Air

by Alphonse Brown

Within the history of the French popular fiction, The Conquest of the Air (1875) with its trip around the world in forty days in a steam-powered flying machine, is significant in terms of its prediction of the development of future aviation; as well as its contribution to the development of Vernian fiction. Alphonse Brown was one of the first French writers to follow in the footsteps of Jules Verne, penning a series of "extraordinary voyages" relying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161227143X
• ISBN13: 9781612271439
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Hollywood Comics
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"