4 Results for : hydroplanes
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A Race to Freedom: The Mira Slovak Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 987min
Mira Slovak was born in Czechoslovakia and endured both the Nazi occupation and the brutal Russian liberation. He joined the Czech Air Force, rising to captain by the age of 21. When he could no longer tolerate life under the Communists, he hijacked an airliner and flew across the Iron Curtain to freedom. He went to work for the CIA and was eventually sent to the US and given a job as Bill Boeing, Jr.'s, personal pilot. When Boeing began racing hydroplanes in the late 1950s, Mira was his driver. During his 10-year career as a hydroplane driver, he won many races and two national championships. He met presidents and dated movie starlets. After a serious hydroplane accident, Slovak switched to airplanes, where he won another national championship. When he retired from racing, he became a stunt pilot and public speaker and talked about the value of freedom and how we should value it above everything else. He outlasted communism, and when it collapsed in 1990, he returned to his home, only to realize his true home was and always would be the US. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Callanan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117159/bk_acx0_117159_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Great Gatsby , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 298min
Often described as the great American novel, The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece of the Jazz Age - has become one of the most beloved and revered books of the 20th century. Narrated by the enigmatic Nick Carraway, the story takes place in the well-to-do section of Long Island, New York, where socialites and millionaires cavort about on their yachts and hydroplanes, oblivious to the day-to-day drudgery of the working-class drones they motor past each day. Nick, renting a small cottage for the summer, is drawn into the social circle of his next-door neighbor, the handsome and mysterious Jay Gatsby. As he grows closer to Gatsby, Nick comes to learn that the reclusive young millionaire is pining for, and hoping to reclaim, his old flame Daisy Buchanan, who lives directly across the bay with her abrasive and unfaithful husband, Tom.Set amid wild Jazz-Age parties, flowing champagne, speedy sports cars, and dark, hidden secrets, The Great Gatsby has earned a well-deserved place in the canon of American literature. At once a celebration of the free-spirited and brightly lit era of the Roaring Twenties and a penetrating examination of the heartlessness of its inhabitants, The Great Gatsby is one of the most beloved and analyzed novels in history and the subject of numerous adaptations for the stage and screen. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Theis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235731/bk_acx0_235731_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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