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100	1		_aThomas, Lowell _d1892-1981
245	1	4	_aThe first world flight : _bbeing the personal narriative of Lowell Smith, Erik Nelson, Leigh Wade, Leslie Arnold, Henry Ogden, John Harding / _cwritten by Lowell Thomas.
260			_aBoston ; _aNew York : _bHoughton Mifflin, _c1925.
300			_axxii, 328 pages, [88] pages of plates : _bill., portraits ; _c22 cm.
500			_aMaps on lining papers
505	0		_aContents: Foreword by the fliers -- I. The narrator's tribute -- II. The genesis of the adventure -- III. The flight from Los Angeles to Seattle -- IV. Smith and Arnold, crew of the Chicago -- V. Wade and Ogden, crew of the Boston -- VI. The flying viking and smiling Jack -- VII. The start -- VIII. Through Alaskan blizzards -- IX. Forced landing of the Seattle -- X. From Chignik to Dutch Harbor -- XI. Martin and Harvey lost in Alaska -- XII. Flying down the Aleutian Islands -- XIII. The first aerial crossing of the Pacific -- XIV. In the land of volcanoes and hairy men -- XV. Adventures in Tokio -- XVI. Across the China Sea -- XVII. Flynig down the China coast -- XVIII. A forced landing in the Jungle of French Indo-China -- XIX. From Indo-China to the land of the white elephant -- XX. From Siam to Burma in a day -- XXI. Calcutta: queen city of the east -- XXII. Along the Grand Trunk Road with a stowaway on board -- XXIII. Across the Indian desert to the Arabian Sea -- XXIV. From Karachi to Baghdad by way of Persia and Baluchistan -- XXV. Across the Arabian desert from Baghdad to Constantinople -- XXVI. Flying over the witches' cauldron from Constantinople to Vienna -- XXVII. Adventures in Paris and London -- XXVIII. From Hull to Scapa flow -- XXIX. The flight to Iceland and the sinking of the Boston -- XXX. From Iceland to Greenland eight hundred and thirty-five miles over the Arctic ice-pack -- XXXI. The rescue of Locatelli: adventures in Greenland: America at last! -- XXXII. From icy tickle to Boston -- XXXIII. The last
650	1	4	_aAeronautics _xFlights
650	1	4	_aFlights around the world
700	1		_aSmith, Lowell _4aut
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