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Here is the story of airships--manmade flying machines without wings--from their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. The...

"From an author praised by the Wall Street Journal for his "eye for a good story" comes an account of the Herbert Fuller tragedy of 1896, a tragedy that occurred on the high seas and one involving the senseless slaughter of three of the twelve souls on board. Stunned by this act ...

"An account of the Herbert Fuller tragedy of 1896, in which three of the twelve souls on board were killed. Upon reaching port, all the survivors are suspects. But at the center of this gripping and gruesome story is the first mate, Thomas Bram, whose subsequent murder trials wer...