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Author: Eileen F. Lebow
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Before Amelia is the remarkable story of the worlds women pioneer aviators who braved the skies during the early days of flight. While most books have only examined the women aviators of a single country, Eileen Lebow looks at an international spectrum of pilots and their influence on each other. The story begins with Raymonde de Laroche, a French woman who became the first licensed female pilot in 1909. De Laroche, Lydia Zvereva, Melli Beese, Hilda Hewlitt, Harriet Quimby, and the other women pilots profiled here rose above contemporary gender stereotypes and proved their ability to fly the temperamental heavier-than-air contraptions of the day. Lebow provides excellent descriptions of the dangers and challenges of early flight. Crashes and broken bones were common, and many of the pioneers lost their lives. But these women were adventurers at heart. In an era when womens professional options were severely limited and the mere sight of ladies wearing pants caused a sensation, these women succeeded as pilots, flight instructors, airplane designers, stunt performers, and promoters. This book fills a large void in the history of the first two decades of flight.**From Library JournalIn the early days of aviation, the Wright Brothers refused to sell their airplanes to women because, in their opinion, women lacked the requisite coolness and judgment to fly. Despite such obstacles, a number of women in the first decades of flying managed to become accomplished pilots and to play various other roles in aviation. Lebows book surveys the careers of these remarkable women, both in the United States and internationally. She looks at women such as Hilda Hewlett of England, who was not only a pilot but cofounded Englands first aviation school in 1910 and produced her own line of aircraft. Lebow (A Grandstand Seat The American Balloon Service in World War I) is an accomplished writer particularly adept at doing archival and historical research and then bringing it to life. Much of the attention in the area of women in aviation has gone to later figures, like Amelia Earhart, while the earlier pioneers of the pre-World War I era have been largely overlooked. Lebows well-researched book fills that gap. It is engaging to read, with useful chapter notes and ample illustrations. Highly recommended for womens studies and aviation history collections. Charles Cowling, SUNY at Brockport Lib. 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist The early days of the subtitle are those before 1914, and the number of women who flew then, some without actual licenses, runs well into three figures. The first to fly and get a license was French Raymonde de Laroche. She had numerous compatriots, though, not least the amazing, long-lived Marie Marvingt. Harriet Quimby was first-with-license in the U.S., but she was killed less than a year afterward Ruth Law and the Stinson sisters lasted longer and flew farther in the U.S. Hilda Hewlett was not only the first Englishwoman to fly she and the German Milli Beese were the first women to run aircraft factories, which Beese, however, managed with the handicap of marriage to a Frenchman. There were Russians, Italians, Scandinavians, Austrians, Hungarians, and many others who demolished taboos, records, airplanes, and occasionally themselves with pioneering aplomb. Alas, that World War I and its plethora of higher-tech planes and male pilots befell these unsung pioneers, whose story belongs in every adult aviation and womens studies collection. Roland Green American Library Association. lt
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Author: Milan Djordjević
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has done more than anyone since Czeslaw Milosz to introduce English-language readers to the greatest modern Slavic poets. In Oranges and Snow, Simic continues this work with his translations of one of todays finest Serbian poets, Milan Djordjevic. An encounter between two poets and two languages, this bilingual edition--the first selection of Djordjevics work to appear in English--features Simics translations and the Serbian originals on facing pages. Simic, a native Serbian speaker, has selected some forty-five of Djordjevics best poems and provides an introduction in which he discusses the poets work, as well as the challenges of translation.Djordjevic, who was born in Belgrade in 1954, is a poet who gives equal weight to imagination and reality. This book ranges across his entire career to date. His earliest poems can deal with something as commonplace as a bulb of garlic, a potato, or an overcoat fallen on the floor. Later poems, often dreamlike and surreal, recount his travels in Germany, France, and England. His recent poems are more autobiographical and realistic and reflect a personal tragedy. Confined to his house after being hit and nearly killed by a car while crossing a Belgrade street in 2007, the poet writes of his humble surroundings, the cats that come to his door, the birds he sees through his window, and the copies of one of his own books that he once burnt to keep warm.Whatever their subject, Djordjevics poems are beautiful, original, and always lyrical.** Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has done more than anyone since Czeslaw Milosz to introduce English-language readers to the greatest modern Slavic poets. In Oranges and Snow, Simic continues this work with his translations of one of todays finest Serbian poets, Milan Djordjevic. An encounter between two poets and two languages, this bilingual edition--the first selection of Djordjevics work to appear in English--features Simics translations and the Serbian originals on facing pages. Simic, a native Serbian speaker, has selected some forty-five of Djordjevics best poems and provides an introduction in which he discusses the poets work, as well as the challenges of translation.Djordjevic, who was born in Belgrade in 1954, is a poet who gives equal weight to imagination and reality. This book ranges across his entire career to date. His earliest poems can deal with something as commonplace as a bulb of garlic, a potato, or an overcoat fallen on the floor. Later poems, often dreamlike and surreal, recount his travels in Germany, France, and England. His recent poems are more autobiographical and realistic and reflect a personal tragedy. Confined to his house after being hit and nearly killed by a car while crossing a Belgrade street in 2007, the poet writes of his humble surroundings, the cats that come to his door, the birds he sees through his window, and the copies of one of his own books that he once burnt to keep warm.Whatever their subject, Djordjevics poems are beautiful, original, and always lyrical.**
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