The flight : Charles Lindbergh's daring and immortal 1927 transatlantic crossing
(Non-fiction)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-287) and index.

On the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known American pilot named Charles A. Lindbergh climbed into his single-engine monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, and prepared to take off from a small airfield on Long Island, New York. Despite his inexperience, he was determined to win the $25,000 Orteig Prize promised since 1919 to the first pilot to fly nonstop between New York and Paris. Ahead of him lay a 3,600-mile solo journey across the vast north Atlantic and into the unknown. Thirty-three and a half hours later, a crowd of more than 100,000 mobbed the Spirit as the audacious young American touched down in Paris, having achieved the seemingly impossible.