The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot

Summary

This true story follows the French inventor Louis Bleriot as he becomes fascinated with flying machines and builds one model after another until he succeeds in crossing the English Channel by air in 1909. Alice and Martin Provensen illustrate his determined experiments and crashes with charming period scenes of early aviation, family life, and the French countryside. The warm and humorous pictures celebrate the persistence and wonder behind one of the first great triumphs of powered flight.