Jason Ryan
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
448 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Covering a century of depravity in the Deep South, this stranger-than-fiction account of the most famous man in South Carolina who lives in prison, convicted of more than 100 crimes and counting, shows how his vile actions are only the beginning as his family's past is revealed.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Today, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast, but almost a century ago, it was a nerve-wracking and twenty-six-hour journey across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to Hawaii chronicles the thrilling first flights during the Golden Age of Aviation, a time when new airplanes traveled farther and faster but were also unreliable, fragile, and hampered by primitive air navigation equipment. The US Navy tried first, sending...