The history of manned flight spans just under a century, but it includes some of the most glorious adventures in human experience.

From Going solo / by Roald Dahl -- From The man who rode the thunder / by William H. Rankin -- From The right stuff / by Tom Wolfe -- From West with the night / by Beryl Markham -- From The information / by Martin Amis -- From Fate is the hunter / by Ernest K. Gann -- From Flight of passage / by Rinker Buck -- From Carrying the fire : an astronaut's journeys / by Michael Collins -- From Father Goose / by William Lishman -- From A lonely kind of war / by Marshall Harrison -- From The price of fire / by Martha Gellhorn -- From Ironclaw : a navy carrier pilot's Gulf War experience / by Sherman Baldwin -- From The sky beyond / by Sir Gordon Taylor -- From Enduring love / by Ian McEwan -- From Wind, sand and stars / by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- From The Spirit of St. Louis / by Charles A. Lindbergh.