Eckener’s Dream Machine: The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel – Douglas Botting Hindenburg: An Illustrated History – Rick Archbold (text) & Ken Marschall (illus.).Airship on a Shoestring – John Anderson.

USS Los Angeles: The Navy’s Venerable Airship and Aviation Technology – William F.Airships: Designed for Greatness – Gregory Alegi, et.al.Airship: The Story of R.34 – Patrick Abbott.Questions and comments are always welcome. If you have any additions, please let me know. Because inquiring minds want to know! The list below is divided into non-fiction and fiction. To that end, I thought I’d share with you today the portion of my library dedicated to books about airships. There’s quite a bit of material out there. Well, Virginia, I’m here to tell you that isn’t necessarily so. Some of you have made comments on the seeming dearth of information on the airship. Many of you are aware of my love affair with the airship and the rigid airship in particular.

Rounding out the gathering, The Zeppelin Reader is illustrated with stunning photographs, advertisements, drawings, and cartoons from the glorious age of airships.The LZ-114 completed after WW I, turned over to the French, and renamed Dixmude. There is a rich sampling of airship musical scores and lyrics the music constitutes a kind of recovered history and helps recapture the emotional range of the era. Lawrence, Rita Dove, Richard Brautigan, and many others. The great airships inspired poets and writers old and new here are works by such diverse writers as Robinson Jeffers, Kay Boyle, Bernard Shaw, D. Included are vivid accounts by such legendary figures as Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Hugo Eckener, and Alberto Santos-Dumont as well as memoirs, logs, journals, and diaries by Zeppelin commanders, crew, explorers, journalists, and survivors of ill-fated flights. Tracing the history of the airship from its beginning in the nineteenth century to its fiery conclusion in 1937, Robert Hedin has gathered the finest stories, descriptions, poems, music, and illustrations about what the era was like in fact and in spirit. They remain the largest crafts that have ever been launched into the sky. In war and peace, to most people they seem bigger than life itself, bright, wondrous, sometimes dangerous apparitions that engender a religious awe. Size is usually the first thing that comes to mind when we ponder the great airships.

The Great Dirigibles by John Toland