Ian Graham

Think You Know Who Your Friends Are? Think again... From Mata Hari to D. B. Cooper, history is littered with people pretending to be someone else. Some go undetected for years, cultivating their false identities so skillfully, even their spouses don't know. Other frauds go up in flames after one misstep. The Ultimate Book of Impostors presents the astonishing true stories behind over one hundred of the craziest and funniest phonies in history, including:...

Traces the development of flight including designs and technology of hot air balloons, gliders, helicopters, and rockets.

Illustrations and text describe how humans have tried to learn more about space and some of the equipment and vehicles used to do this.

Describes the realities and risks of attempting to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, from the perspective of a member of a team of British mountaineers in 1952.

"Get ready...as a young man in Civil War America, you are about to become involved in a highly dangerous underwater arms race. You could get into very deep water in the first submarine..."--Cover back.

Offers a humorous look at the story of the Wright brothers' first historic flight at Kitty Hawk.

"Describes what is weather around our planet."--

Explores some of today's most impressive technological innovations and how they are shaping the world.