The Spirit of St. Louis

Summary

Charles A. Lindbergh tells the story of his 1927 solo flight from New York to Paris in his own words, hour by hour across the Atlantic. The memoir relives the exhaustion, fear, and wonder of the crossing while folding in his earlier years as an airmail pilot and barnstormer. It matters as a firsthand account of one of the defining feats of early aviation, written by the man at the controls.