Project Gutenberg 2012-10-25 Public domain in the USA. 121 Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) 1872 1957 Brereton, Frederick Sadleir Padday, C. M. (Charles Murray) 1868 1954 Padday, Charles Murray The Great Airship: A Tale of Adventure. Produced by sp1nd, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) "The Great Airship: A Tale of Adventure" by Lt.-Col. F. S. Brereton is a novel likely written in the early 20th century. This adventurous tale centers around Andrew Provost and his inventive nephew, Joseph Gresson, who embark on a daring project to create a flying airship that surpasses the capabilities of the contemporary Zeppelin. The story unfolds against the backdrop of technological advancements in aviation, exploring themes of ambition and rivalry. At the start of the book, Andrew Provost and his nephew Joe are aboard a ship when they spot a Zeppelin in the sky, igniting a discussion about airship technology. Inspired by the sight, Andrew challenges Joe to design and build a more advanced airship, agreeing to finance the venture for a hundred thousand pounds. Their conversation leads to a bold agreement with a skeptical German, Carl Reitberg, who doubts they can succeed within nine months. As they solidify their plans, the narrative introduces a mix of characters from the British Navy, hinting at an intertwining of their adventures with Joe's airship project, setting the stage for an exhilarating journey filled with trials and ingenuity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41176/41176-h/images/cover.jpg en Airships -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Fiction 565236 565241 2024-09-17T10:11:10.022870 2023-09-18T05:18:52.270834 text/html text/html 572365 2012-10-25T12:42:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 755594 2012-10-25T12:42:44 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 775596 2024-09-17T10:11:17.425792 application/epub+zip 781397 2024-09-17T10:11:11.142867 application/epub+zip 295094 2024-09-17T10:11:10.568846 application/epub+zip 950933 2024-09-17T10:11:22.433795 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 902670 2024-09-17T10:11:16.731824 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 417188 2022-09-18T19:13:50.033156 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 525025 524817 2024-09-17T10:11:08.771886 2023-09-18T05:18:51.283837 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 524890 2012-10-25T12:42:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 200492 2012-10-25T12:42:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 524882 2012-10-25T12:42:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 200456 2012-10-25T12:42:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20697 2024-09-17T10:11:22.576770 application/rdf+xml 20638 2024-09-17T10:11:10.672826 image/jpeg 3569 2024-09-17T10:11:10.620853 image/jpeg 756203 2024-09-17T10:11:10.084830 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia