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Noah Adams's adventure searching for Wilbur and Orville Wright is a journey that takes him in the united states as he follows in the footsteps of the famous brothers so that they can know them more deeply, not simply as inventors and pilots but as individuals as well. Adams, one in our most distinctive and talented storytellers, traveled a large number of miles and interviewed scores of experts and people to patch together his story. He finds an area boat captain to ferry him to Kitty Hawk, over the same route that Wilbur took in 1900, and spends several days talking with descendants of the families who first welcomed the Wright brothers a century ago and helped them conduct their gliding experiments. To see first-hand the thrill to be in the air, Adams himself goes hang-gliding in the Outer Banks. To comprehend the aerodynamics of lift and drag and the way the famous 1903 plane was constructed, he visits the Virginia pilot and vintage aircraft builder who's creating the world's most accurate reproduction of the 1903 Wright Flyer. He also travels to France to go to the old racetrack at Le Mans where Wilbur startled the European aviation community with his demonstration flights in 1908. In Adams's book we come across the Wright brothers in a manner that no writer has introduced them before. Throughout the lens of his own activities as well as original reporting, letters, diaries and other primary source material, he helps us understand the talent and intensity of the brothers and their family, including the fascinating, deeply complex, and at times tragic bond between Orville and Katharine, his younger sister. The Flyers is a wonderfully rich narrative that brings an unprecedented spirit of immediacy to one of history's most dramatic stories.
