My Airships: The Story of My Life
Alberto Santos-Dumont
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Length 6 h 9 min
Chapters 25
First published 1904
The delightful tale of "le petit Santos" as he dances through the sky above the City of Light at the dawn of the aerial age. A note to the listener: Throughout this story the author makes several references to helpful figures and illustrations. These may be found upon the corresponding pages in the Project Gutenberg e-book. (Summary by Scott Danneker)
Chapters
1
Introductory Fable: The Reasoning of Children Read by Scott Danneker 13:07
2
Paris - Professional Balloonists - Automobiles Read by Scott Danneker 11:43
3
My First Balloon Ascent Read by Scott Danneker 15:16
4
My 'Brazil' Read by Scott Danneker 11:58
5
The Real and Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning Read by Scott Danneker 17:21
6
I Yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea Read by Scott Danneker 18:07
7
My First Air-Ship Cruises Read by Scott Danneker 9:57
8
How it Feels to Navigate the Air Read by Scott Danneker 16:27
9
Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases Read by Scott Danneker 16:26
10
I Go in for Airship Building Read by Scott Danneker 14:15
11
The Exposition Summer Read by Scott Danneker 15:24
12
The Deutsch Prize and its Problems Read by Scott Danneker 11:11
13
A Fall Before a Rise Read by Scott Danneker 17:18
14
The Building of My 'No. 6' Read by Scott Danneker 9:34
15
Wining the Deutsche Prize Read by Scott Danneker 10:52
16
A Glance Backward and Forward Read by Scott Danneker 9:38
17
Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope Read by Scott Danneker 17:49
18
Flights in Mediterranean Winds Read by Scott Danneker 15:10
19
Speed Read by Scott Danneker 20:03
20
An Accident and its Lessons Read by Scott Danneker 9:41
21
The First of the World's Air-Ship Stations Read by Scott Danneker 16:35
22
My 'No. 9,' the Little Runabout Read by Scott Danneker 19:07
23
The Air-Ship in War Read by Scott Danneker 18:21
24
Paris as a Centre of Air-Ship Experiments Read by Scott Danneker 12:48
25
CONCLUDING FABLE: More Reasoning of Children Read by Scott Danneker 3:45
From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org) , the text (opens gutenberg.org) , all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org) .
