Publisher's Synopsis
Designed to draw the reader into the drama and excitement of their lives, this book focuses on the Wright brothers, whose fascination with flight led them to invent the first powered aeroplane in the world, heralding the beginning of air transport as we know it today.;The text follows their early interest when their inventiveness was encouraged and their mutual preoccupation with flight developed. The author describes how, as they grew up, they worked together to realize their dream of inventing a flying machine. Their achievements are recorded as notable and immensely inspiring not only because of their historical significance, but because they were gained with self-taught abilities and in the face of endless setbacks.;The story also describes the brothers' extraordinary struggle for recognition from a world that did not believe such a feat possible.;Hook has also written "Francis Drake" in this series and "Sitting Bull and the Plains Indians" and "George Stephenson and the Industrial Revolution" in the "Life and Times Series".
