Wings of Madness Alberto Santos-Dumont and

From the author of the acclaimed "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" comes a book that is at once the biography of an eccentric Brazilian aviator, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and the story of the thrilling early days of flight. 16-page photo insert.

Paul Hoffman has been a special correspondent for Good Morning America and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He was president of Encyclopaedia Britannica and editor-in-chief of Discover. He is the winner of the first National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, Time, and Atlantic Monthly. Hoffman was the host of the five-part PBS series Great Minds of Science. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Woodstock, NY

Prologue

1

(8)

Dinner on the Ceiling

Champs-Elysées,1903

1. Arrival

9

(17)

Minas Gerais,1873

2. "A Most Dangerous Place for a Boy"

26

(14)

Paris, 1891

3. First Flight

40

(29)

Vaugirard,1897

4. Dying for Science

69

(21)

Paris, 1899

5. The Turkey Buzzard's Secret

90

(12)

6. An Afternoon in the Rothschilds' Chestnut Tree

102

(25)

Paris, 1901

7. "It Is the Poor Who Will Suffer!"

127

(23)

The Eiffel Tower, 1901

8. "Making Armies a Jest"

150

(11)

9. An Unwelcome Dip in the Mediterranean

161

(46)

Bay of Monaco, 1902

10. "Airship is Useless, Says Lord Kelvin" 178

London and New York, 1902

11. The World's First Aerial Car

207

(27)

Paris, 1903

12. A Scurrilous Stabbing and a Russian Bribe

234

(17)

St. Louis, 1904

13. "Aeroplane Raised by Small Motor, M. Santos-Dumont Performs a Feat Never Before Attained in Europe"

251

(27)

Paris, 1906

14. "A War of Engineers and Chemists"

278

(14)

15. "Cavalry of the Clouds"

292

(9)

16. Departure

301

(16)

Guarújd, 1932

Postmortem

In search of a Heart 312

Campo dos Afanas, 2000

Origins and Acknowledgments

317

(6)

Notes

323

(26)

What Santos-Dumont Wrote

349

(2)

What Santos-Dumont Read

351

(2)

What Santos-Dumont Made

353

(6)

Index

359

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Wings of Madness Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight

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