Henning Boëtius (1939–2022)
Autore di The Phoenix
Sull'Autore
Henning Boetius an acclaimed author in Germany, spent five years researching the science behind the invention of the zeppelin before writing The Phoenix. He lives near Frankfurt, Germany. (Bowker Author Biography)
Fonte dell'immagine: Henning Boëtius
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Opere di Henning Boëtius
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Boëtius, Henning
- Nome legale
- Boëtius, Henning
- Altri nomi
- Bastiansen, Uwe
- Data di nascita
- 1939-05-11
- Data di morte
- 2022-03-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Duitsland
- Luogo di nascita
- Langen, Hessen, Duitsland
- Luogo di residenza
- Föhr, Deutschland
Rendsburg, Deutschland
Berlin, Deutschland - Attività lavorative
- writer
- Relazioni
- Boetius, Antje (Tochter)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 34
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 268
- Popolarità
- #86,166
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 67
- Lingue
- 7
This book sat on my bookshelf for the longest time, and survived several cullings of books that I removed from my collection. I would look at it and think, "You're never going to read this, you should remove it." But then I would put it back on the shelf. Then, two days ago, I decided, "Give it 2o pages, if you're not hooked by then give it away." What on earth made me wait so long?
I loved the description of sailing and its relationship to flying a zeppelin airship. The story kept me in its grip and never did I find the technical descriptions boring or difficult to understand. This book is a keeper. This Hindenberg disaster happened five years before I was born, but I grew up with it as a recent past, shocking, terrible disaster. Next to the bombing of Pearl Harbour, and the kidnapping of the Lindenberg baby it was the most traumatic event of life at the time.
Boetius' book centers around the lives of two men - one a passenger, one a crewman. Their lives are intertwined from the beginning, little do they know it. Boetius also formulates a thoroughly plausible explanation of how - and why - the disaster occurred.… (altro)