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Professor Jonathan T. Buck's Mysterious Airship Notebook

The Lost Step-by-Step Schematic Drawings from the Pioneer of Steampunk Design

ISBN-13: 9781612430171

Author(s): Keith Riegert

Subjects: AGB

Publisher: Simon And Schuster Group USA

Publisher Imprint: Ulysses Press

Publication Date: 05-11-2004

Format: Hardback

Availability: Temporary unavailable

£15.99
Professor Jonathan T. Buck's Mysterious Airship Notebook

About the book

PART STEP-BY-STEP HOW-TO-DRAW GUIDE, PART THRILLING STEAMPUNK ADVENTURE STORYAt the end of the 19th century, a brilliant inventor, Professor Jonathan T. Buck, crafted a beautiful steam-powered airship for an expedition to South America's Amazon River Basin in search of a magnificent lost city -- hidden from terrestrial explorers for centuries by its surrounding dense forests. But something mysterious happened in the heart of the jungle -- Buck, his crew and the Air Paddle Steamer Claire vanished. More than a century later, an expedition sent to look for any trace of the Claire vanished and its crew discovered a single, discarded trunk lodged high in the forest canopy. Inside was this notebook: a riveting -- firsthand account that reveals not only just how Buck drew up the plans for his airship, but what fate befell the expedition. Professor Jonathan T. Buck's Mysterious Airship Notebook is unlike any adventure story before. Part drawing guide, part historical saga, this book will transport readers to a world before modern technology, when steam power, gadgets, gases and gizmos took us into the skies.