Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LISTEN! THE WIND-Anne Morrow Lindbergh-Harcourt, Brace...
...very often that a second book written in the same vein as a highly successful first one can equal its predecessor in the freshness of its approach. But Anne Lindbergh's "Listen, the Wind," though not so exciting as "North to the Orient," is even more of a work of art. In describing places and experiences that have never been described before, Mrs. Lindbergh, with unusual sensibility and insight, has succeeded in making her story both beautiful and real...
...planning of the flight from Africa to South America; and the flight, when it finally takes place, turns out to be an anticlimax. It is, therefore, not from the number of events that the book derives its absorbing interest, but from the way they are described and integrated. Mrs. Lindbergh keenly singles out the small but unusual details that make the story unmistakably real: "The were newspapers on the floor, French ones, old and yellowing, gritty with dust, their emphatic black headlines staring up at the ceiling as they had been staring ever since the old chief had left them...
...outstanding aspect of the book, for which Mrs. Lindbergh deserves great credit, is the extraordinary reality of the narrative. The story is truly alive, breathing the freshness, enthusiasm, and wisdom of the author's treatment...
...Listen! The Wind proves to be less popular than North to the Orient, it may be because it describes a more tedious journey, gives the impression that Mrs. Lindbergh enjoyed flying over the frozen North far more than over the tropics...