The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed

john mcphee

This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's sucessive progenitors.

Genres nonfictionsciencehistoryaviationtechnologyessaysengineeringliterature

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1973

This edition

Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Published: September 1, 1992 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374516352
ASIN: 0374516359
Language: English

About the author

john mcphee

John Angus McPhee is an American writer. He is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction, and he won that award on the fourth occasion in 1999 for Annals of the Former World (a collection of five books, including two of his previous Pulitzer finalists). In 2008, he received the George Polk Career Award for his "indelible mark on American journalism during his nearly half-century career". Since 1974, McPhee has been the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.