| ISBN |
9781922244635 (hardback) |
| Classification |
J 629.13092 MASO |
| Personal Name |
Mason, Prue |
| Title |
Amazing Australians in their flying machines / Prue & Kerry Mason ; illustrations by Tom Jellett. |
| Publication Details |
Newtown, NSW : Walker Books Australia, 2017. |
| Production & Copyright Details |
Newtown, NSW Walker Books Australia, 2017. |
| © 2017 |
| Physical Description |
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations, portraits ; 27 x 26 cm. |
| Content type |
text |
| still image |
| Note |
Includes illustrations on endpapers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 30) and index. |
| Contents Note |
15 April 1851: Dr William Bland -- 12 November 1894: Lawrence Hargrave -- 5 December 1909: George Taylor -- 12 November 1914: Richard Williams -- 10 December 1919: Ross Macpherson Smith -- 12 April 1921: Bert Hinkler -- 5 December 1921: Norman Brearley -- 17 May 1928: John Flynn -- 1932: Nancy Bird -- 7 November 1935: Charles Kingsford Smith -- Australian Aviation Today -- Authors' Note. |
| Summary Note |
This book shares how a handful of early aviators helped Australia reach beyond its borders to lands far away. Imagine what it was like to travel to far-off places before there were aeroplanes. For early 20th-century Australians, it could take days, weeks, or months just to get where they were going. This book tells the stories of ten brave Australians, including the youngest licensed woman pilot Nancy Bird, who took to the skies and changed the face of aviation forever. |
| Target audience note |
For secondary school age. |
| Subject - Topical Term |
Aeronautics -- History |
| Air pilots -- Biography |
| Flight -- History |
| Adventure and adventurers -- Australia |
| Air pilots -- Australia |
| Flight -- History |
| Aeronautics -- Australia -- History |
| Air pilots |
| Picture books |
| Flight |
| Adventure and adventurers |
| Aeronautics |
| Adventure and adventurers |
| Picture books |
| Air pilots -- Biography |
| Flight -- History |
| Aeronautics -- History |
| Picture books |
| Air pilots -- Australia -- Juvenile literature |
| Flight -- History -- Juvenile literature |
| Aeronautics -- Australia -- History -- Juvenile literature |
| Adventure and adventurers -- Australia -- Juvenile literature |
| Adventure and adventurers -- Australia -- Anecdotes |
| Air pilots -- Australia -- Juvenile literature |
| Flight -- History -- Juvenile literature |
| Aeronautics -- Australia -- History -- Juvenile literature |
| Subject - Geographic Name |
Australia |
| Subject - Fiction Genre |
Australian |
| Subject - Genre |
History |
| Juvenile works |
| Added Entry - Personal Name |
Kerry, Mason author. |
| Jellet, Tom illustrator. |
