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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WINGS OP ADVENTURE CHARLES A. LINDBERGH 1902- It seemed almost as if a kindly fate put young Charles Lindbergh from his earliest years in training for his wings of adventure and good-will. Two months after he was born, on February 4,1902, his parents moved to a farm in Minnesota, and the boy's first glimpses of a world of large spaces were followed by more changes in home place and more chances for travel than come to many children. He was a small lad when his father was elected to Congress, which meant journeys each year to Washington and back again to the West. This constant migration kept him from completing school terms but had the advantage of giving him a real interest in different kinds of living. He never had the chance to take root firmly in one place and feel that there he belonged. Instead, his natural longings were all for travel?for going on and discovering what life held for people in new places. I always knew I wanted to fly since I saw my first airplane in Washington, D. C., in 1912, hesaid, but it was ten years later when I was enrolled in a flying school before I was near enough to a plane to touch one.'' During those ten years his chief opportunities for adventure came through motor-cycle trips. Part of the vacation that followed his freshman year at the University of Wisconsin was spent at an artillery school at Camp Knox, Kentucky. The rest was passed journeying to Jacksonville, Florida, and back to Madison on his motor-cycle. He spent in all just seventeen days and thirty-nine dollars on this grand tour, which gave him a new sense of mastery over himself and the ways of a machine, as well as the freedom of new trails. During his university days, his chief interest was for science, and particularly mechanics. At this time he longed intensely ...