{"product_id":"the-big-hop-david-rooney-9781324050964","title":"The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in \"the Big Hop\" an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. Only one team, after a death-defying sixteen-hour journey, made it to Ireland. The Atlantic flights of Charles Lindbergh in 1927 and Amelia Earhart in 1932 pushed this earlier contest into the shadows, but \u003cem\u003eThe Big Hop\u003c\/em\u003e grants the pioneering airmen of 1919 the spotlight they deserve. Mining evocative first-person accounts, David Rooney traces the pilots' lives and journeys, transporting readers to the world in which the great contest took place. The transatlantic race offered a welcome distraction--and a surge of inspiration--to a public reeling from the Great War and influenza pandemic. \u003cem\u003eThe Big Hop\u003c\/em\u003e recounts this deeply moving adventure, helping to answer the question of why we took to the skies, and why flights like this one mattered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Rooney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324050969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324050964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"David Rooney","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46420517093631,"sku":"9781324050964","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d8e6b59a-0b4e-4b3d-b681-83bae385f405.jpg?v=1734634865","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-big-hop-david-rooney-9781324050964","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}