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From the author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, winner of the prestigious Rhone-Poulenc science award: the history of aviation told through the extraordinary story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the forgotten man who battled to be the first to free himself from the confines of the earth.
An environmental parable for our times – the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the 20th-century.
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