Flying Dutchman
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before the age of commercial aviation, one man dared to dream in metal and sky — Anthony Fokker, the audacious Dutch aviation pioneer whose genius shaped the very trajectory of modern flight. Flying Dutchman is the electrifying autobiography of a self-made maverick who, at barely twenty years old, was already building and flying his own aircraft in pre-war Germany, and whose aircraft factories would go on to supply some of the most formidable warplanes of World War I, including those flown by the legendary Red Baron. With disarming candour and infectious enthusiasm, Fokker chronicles his meteoric rise from an unconventional Dutch schoolboy to one of the most influential figures in the history of aviation, painting a vivid portrait of an era when the sky was no longer a limit but a frontier. Beyond the thrilling personal narrative, Flying Dutchman stands as a remarkable document of early twentieth-century technological ambition, capturing the raw, improvisational spirit that defined the pioneering age of aviation. Fokker's voice is direct and unapologetic, reflecting the same bold instinct that drove him to reinvent aircraft design under the pressures of wartime and peacetime competition alike. His account illuminates the intersection of personal daring, commercial cunning, and genuine mechanical brilliance — a combination that made him simultaneously celebrated and controversial on both sides of the Atlantic. For anyone captivated by the dawn of human flight, this memoir raises an irresistible question: how much of history is shaped not by nations or ideologies, but by the restless imagination of a single extraordinary individual?
Author: Anthony Fokker
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before the age of commercial aviation, one man dared to dream in metal and sky — Anthony Fokker, the audacious Dutch aviation pioneer whose genius shaped the very trajectory of modern flight. Flying Dutchman is the electrifying autobiography of a self-made maverick who, at barely twenty years old, was already building and flying his own aircraft in pre-war Germany, and whose aircraft factories would go on to supply some of the most formidable warplanes of World War I, including those flown by the legendary Red Baron. With disarming candour and infectious enthusiasm, Fokker chronicles his meteoric rise from an unconventional Dutch schoolboy to one of the most influential figures in the history of aviation, painting a vivid portrait of an era when the sky was no longer a limit but a frontier. Beyond the thrilling personal narrative, Flying Dutchman stands as a remarkable document of early twentieth-century technological ambition, capturing the raw, improvisational spirit that defined the pioneering age of aviation. Fokker's voice is direct and unapologetic, reflecting the same bold instinct that drove him to reinvent aircraft design under the pressures of wartime and peacetime competition alike. His account illuminates the intersection of personal daring, commercial cunning, and genuine mechanical brilliance — a combination that made him simultaneously celebrated and controversial on both sides of the Atlantic. For anyone captivated by the dawn of human flight, this memoir raises an irresistible question: how much of history is shaped not by nations or ideologies, but by the restless imagination of a single extraordinary individual?