The main impetus for the flight was the $25,000 Orteig Prize offered by the French-born New York hotelier Raymond Orteig. This historic flight by Charles Lindbergh took him from being a little known US Postal Service Air Mail pilot and made him into one of the most famous if not the most famous person in the world. Lindbergh, written almost immediately after his famous flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris on May 20–21, 1927. We is the autobiography of the famous flier, Charles A. One of the finest most preserved example possible. Fine in the original glassine and in the original blue box with matching number. Octavo, half bound salmon paper covered boards, frontispiece with tissue-guard, 51 black and white plates, with the publisher’s note laid in. One of 1000 numbered copies, this is number 97, signed by both Charles Lindbergh and the publisher on the limitation page. Signed limited edition of Lindbergh’s autobiography, which provides the account of the life of one of the century’s greatest adventurers, the first man to complete a solo non-stop transatlantic flight. Annual Subscriptions are available by becoming a Member of the Archaeological Conservancy for a Donation of $30 dollars. Browse Articles Excerpts from our last issue, SPRING 2017.Īmerican Archaeology Magazine is available on newsstands and at bookstores. Browse Content of this Issue: SUMMER 2017. Read More in our SUMMER 2017 Issue of American Archaeology, Vol. “For Lindbergh, it was both a way to indulge in a new interest, archaeology, and further the cause of aviation as a tool for science.” “Lindbergh was always looking for new uses for aviation, and since he was already flying through both these regions as part of his airline work, he volunteered his time and plane,” explained Berg. Lindbergh quickly volunteered to photograph these areas when flying nearby. He was sent to John Merriam, the director of the nearby Carnegie Institution of Washington (now the Carnegie Institution of Science), who described their ongoing archaeological investigations in the Maya region of southern Mexico, and at Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings and settlements in Canyon de Chelly in Arizona, and Chaco Canyon and the Pecos Valley in New Mexico. Shortly after spying the stone ruins from his plane, Lindbergh visited the Smithsonian Institution to find out more about them. “His interest in archaeology stems from spotting Maya ruins in the jungle while flying over the Yucatán in the winter of 1928-29, scouting possible air routes for Pan-American Airways.” “Lindbergh always had broad and varied interests and his fame from the 1927 Atlantic flight opened a lot of doors for him to indulge those interests,” said Berg. Vocational historian and writer Erik Berg has extensively researched Lindbergh’s life and aerial archaeological surveys, bringing to light his efforts to help locate and document ancient sites and landscapes. But few people know that Lindbergh was also a pioneer in the field of aerial archaeology. Virtually everyone knows about Lucky Lindy’s historic flight in the Spirit of St. Lindbergh completed the first solo trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris, thereby achieving word-wide fame.
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