Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World

by David Randall

Equal parts The Right Stuff and The Boys in the Boat, Into Unknown Skies tells the unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest that pitted underdog US pilots against their better-funded European rivals, created technology that changed aviation, and convinced America that its future was in the sky.

In the early 1920s, America's faith in aviation was in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0063371405
• ISBN13: 9780063371408
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.