装 帧:精装
作 者:David McCullough
开 本:15.9 x 3.3 x 23.5 cm
页 数:336
语 言:英语
IS BN :9781476728742
出版社:Simon & Schuster
内容简介:
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot.
Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did?
David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. The house they lived in had no electricity or indoor plumbing, but there were books aplenty, supplied mainly by their preacher father, and they never stopped reading.
When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education, little money and no contacts in high places, never stopped them in their “mission” to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off in one of their contrivances, they risked being killed.
In this thrilling book, master historian David McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers’ story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them.
作者简介:
David McCullough has twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for Truman and John Adams, and twice received the National Book Award, for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback. His other acclaimed books include 1776, Brave Companions, The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, and The Wright Brothers. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
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评分这是一部关于“远见”的教科书。它没有过多渲染戏剧性的冲突,而是将重点放在了莱特兄弟那种超越时代局限的思维方式上。他们的每一步探索,都建立在严谨的观察和系统性的测试之上,这与当时社会上许多纯粹依靠理论推演或侥幸心理的尝试形成了鲜明对比。作者成功地展现了“工程思维”的强大力量——将一个宏大的、看似不可能的梦想,拆解成无数个可以解决的小问题,然后一个一个攻克。读起来让人感到一种智力上的愉悦,就像观看一位高明的棋手布局,每一步都充满了深思熟虑和预判。对于任何从事创造性工作的人来说,这本书都是一剂强心针,它提醒我们,真正的突破往往需要极大的耐心和对基础科学的敬畏之心。
评分这本书的魅力在于其叙事的宏大与微小的精准完美结合。它不仅聚焦于那决定性的几次飞行测试,更用大量篇幅构建了当时的社会背景——工业革命的尾声,人们对飞行的渴望与怀疑并存的矛盾心态。作者的资料搜集工作显然是极其扎实的,引用了大量的信件、日记和原始记录,使得历史的质感扑面而来。然而,所有的史料都被巧妙地编织进了一个引人入胜的故事线中,从不让人感到信息过载。特别是描述他们如何应对商业化和专利纠纷的部分,展现了创新者在面对现实世界规则时的智慧与挣扎。读完整本书,你获得的不仅仅是知识,更是一种对“坚持到底”的全新理解。它有力地证明了,伟大的突破往往诞生于那些最不引人注目的角落,由最不被看好的人完成。
评分这本书实在是让人欲罢不能,翻开第一页就像被施了魔法一样,立刻就被带入了那个充满创造力和挑战的时代。作者的叙述方式非常引人入胜,他不仅仅是在讲述两个发明家的生平,更是在描绘一幅广阔的历史画卷。你能清晰地感受到那种面对未知时的探索欲和面对质疑时的坚韧。文字的节奏把握得恰到好处,时而如同微风拂过,细致入微地描摹人物的内心世界,时而又如同疾风骤雨,将关键事件的冲击力展现得淋漓尽致。我尤其欣赏作者在处理技术细节时的那种分寸感,既没有让它变得晦涩难懂,也没有因此牺牲掉故事的感染力。读完合上书本的那一刻,心中久久不能平静,仿佛自己也参与了一场伟大的冒险,见证了一个时代的转折点。这绝对是一部值得反复品味的杰作,它超越了简单的传记范畴,成为了一部关于人类精神力量的赞歌。
评分说实话,我原本以为这会是一本枯燥的工业史读物,充满了各种机械图纸和技术术语,但事实完全出乎我的意料。这位作者的文笔简直像是一位技艺高超的雕塑家,他不仅仅是堆砌史料,而是用生动的语言将莱特兄弟的形象雕刻得栩栩如生。你看到的不是两个遥不可及的天才,而是两个有血有肉、会犯错、会争执,却又怀揣着共同梦想的普通人。那种为了一个目标,甘愿付出一切,甚至不惜被世人嘲笑的执着,深深地触动了我。书中对他们早期实验的描绘,那种在自行车铺里进行的无数次失败和微小的进步,被描述得如此真实,让人感觉空气中都弥漫着机油和木屑的味道。这种沉浸式的体验,是很多传记作品难以企及的高度。
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