by Richard Halliburton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781848859142
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«The Flying Carpet: Adventures in a Biplane from Timbuktu to Everest and Beyond» is Richard Halliburton's travel narrative.
In 1931, Richard Halliburton and the aviator Moye Stephens flew around the world in an open-cockpit biplane named The Flying Carpet. The book recounts stopovers in Fez, Timbuktu, Algeria, Cairo, Damascus, Petra and India, where they flew over the Taj Mahal and took the first aerial photograph of Everest.
Tauris Parke Paperbacks publishes this edition in paperback, with 264 pages, English text and a foreword by Tahir Shah; the work originally appeared in 1932.
For readers interested in travel, adventure, historical aviation and chronicles of 20th-century exploration.
