Across the Continent on Wings

Could man fly like a bird? Not as a passenger riding a clunky air ship or balloon, but truly free, on the wing, as eagles do?Despite their many inventions, the Reade family has never cracked the secret of wing-powered flight like a real bird. But now, with the combined intellectual might of the two greatest inventors on Earth, Frank Reade Junior and his father, can the aeronautical secret finally be unraveled? Can man, at last, really fly?In this classic 1885 science fiction tale, Cuban-American author Luis Senarens brings us another thrilling adventure of the 19th Century's most daring kid inventor, boy genius Frank Reade Junior!