Provensen, Alice.

The glorious flight : across the Channel with Louis Blériot, July 25, 1909 / Alice and Martin Provensen. - New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1987, c1983. - 39 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 25 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1983.

A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel.

ISBN: 0140507299 (pbk.) : $4.95

LCCN: 86025473 /AC/r87

Subjects--Personal Names:
Blériot, Louis, 1872-1936 --Juvenile literature.
Blériot, Louis, 1872-1936.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Air pilots.
Airplanes--Design and construction.

LC Class. No.: TL721.B5 / P76 1987

Dewey Class. No.: 629.13/092/4 B 92