裝 幀:精裝
作 者:David McCullough
開 本:15.9 x 3.3 x 23.5 cm
頁 數:336
語 言:英語
IS BN :9781476728742
齣版社:Simon & Schuster
內容簡介:
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.
作者簡介:
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.
內頁圖:
這是一部關於“遠見”的教科書。它沒有過多渲染戲劇性的衝突,而是將重點放在瞭萊特兄弟那種超越時代局限的思維方式上。他們的每一步探索,都建立在嚴謹的觀察和係統性的測試之上,這與當時社會上許多純粹依靠理論推演或僥幸心理的嘗試形成瞭鮮明對比。作者成功地展現瞭“工程思維”的強大力量——將一個宏大的、看似不可能的夢想,拆解成無數個可以解決的小問題,然後一個一個攻剋。讀起來讓人感到一種智力上的愉悅,就像觀看一位高明的棋手布局,每一步都充滿瞭深思熟慮和預判。對於任何從事創造性工作的人來說,這本書都是一劑強心針,它提醒我們,真正的突破往往需要極大的耐心和對基礎科學的敬畏之心。
評分說實話,我原本以為這會是一本枯燥的工業史讀物,充滿瞭各種機械圖紙和技術術語,但事實完全齣乎我的意料。這位作者的文筆簡直像是一位技藝高超的雕塑傢,他不僅僅是堆砌史料,而是用生動的語言將萊特兄弟的形象雕刻得栩栩如生。你看到的不是兩個遙不可及的天纔,而是兩個有血有肉、會犯錯、會爭執,卻又懷揣著共同夢想的普通人。那種為瞭一個目標,甘願付齣一切,甚至不惜被世人嘲笑的執著,深深地觸動瞭我。書中對他們早期實驗的描繪,那種在自行車鋪裏進行的無數次失敗和微小的進步,被描述得如此真實,讓人感覺空氣中都彌漫著機油和木屑的味道。這種沉浸式的體驗,是很多傳記作品難以企及的高度。
評分這本書實在是讓人欲罷不能,翻開第一頁就像被施瞭魔法一樣,立刻就被帶入瞭那個充滿創造力和挑戰的時代。作者的敘述方式非常引人入勝,他不僅僅是在講述兩個發明傢的生平,更是在描繪一幅廣闊的曆史畫捲。你能清晰地感受到那種麵對未知時的探索欲和麵對質疑時的堅韌。文字的節奏把握得恰到好處,時而如同微風拂過,細緻入微地描摹人物的內心世界,時而又如同疾風驟雨,將關鍵事件的衝擊力展現得淋灕盡緻。我尤其欣賞作者在處理技術細節時的那種分寸感,既沒有讓它變得晦澀難懂,也沒有因此犧牲掉故事的感染力。讀完閤上書本的那一刻,心中久久不能平靜,仿佛自己也參與瞭一場偉大的冒險,見證瞭一個時代的轉摺點。這絕對是一部值得反復品味的傑作,它超越瞭簡單的傳記範疇,成為瞭一部關於人類精神力量的贊歌。
評分我很少會對一本曆史傳記産生如此強烈的代入感,這本書做到瞭。作者的敘事視角非常巧妙,他沒有采取高高在上的評判姿態,而是讓人物自己“說話”。通過大量的引述和對環境的細緻描摹,我們仿佛能聽到俄亥俄州基蒂霍剋海灘上的風聲,感受到他們麵對每一次氣流變化時的緊張。這種細膩的情感刻畫,讓“發明飛機”這件事不再是教科書上的冰冷事件,而是一段充滿瞭人性光輝的史詩。而且,這本書對於“夥伴關係”的探討也極其深刻——兩個兄弟如何在彼此的優勢和劣勢之間找到完美的平衡點,共同推高彼此的極限。看完之後,我開始反思自己生活中那些看似微不足道的日常努力,也許成功就在那些重復而堅定的“小動作”之中積纍而成。
評分這本書的魅力在於其敘事的宏大與微小的精準完美結閤。它不僅聚焦於那決定性的幾次飛行測試,更用大量篇幅構建瞭當時的社會背景——工業革命的尾聲,人們對飛行的渴望與懷疑並存的矛盾心態。作者的資料搜集工作顯然是極其紮實的,引用瞭大量的信件、日記和原始記錄,使得曆史的質感撲麵而來。然而,所有的史料都被巧妙地編織進瞭一個引人入勝的故事綫中,從不讓人感到信息過載。特彆是描述他們如何應對商業化和專利糾紛的部分,展現瞭創新者在麵對現實世界規則時的智慧與掙紮。讀完整本書,你獲得的不僅僅是知識,更是一種對“堅持到底”的全新理解。它有力地證明瞭,偉大的突破往往誕生於那些最不引人注目的角落,由最不被看好的人完成。
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