Title: The Boy Aviators in Nicaragua; or, In League with the Insurgents

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Title: The Boy Aviators in Nicaragua; or, In League with the Insurgents Title Record # 2024385
Author: John Henry Goldfrap
Date: 1910-00-00
Type: NOVEL [juvenile]
Series: Boy Aviators
Series Number: 1
Language: English

Note: The first published book by Captain Wilbur Lawton --inferred from WorldCat records and 1910 newspapers

Synopsis:

From newspaper review columns:
Detroit Free Press, 1910-05-22 p. D8: "Two brothers, owners of The Golden Eagle, a biplane of novel construction, take ship for Nicaragua, meaning to make their aeroplane a feature in a typical South American revolution."
St Louis Post-Dispatch, 1910-06-18 p. 6, emphasizes and summarizes the improbability of the "extravagant adventures of Frank and Harry Chester, New York boy aviators, when they went to visit their father on his Nicaragua plantation".
Philadelphia Inquirer, 1910-06-19 p. 4, under heading "Aeroplane in Fiction": "A new and realistic treatment of the aeroplane in fiction is provided by [CWL], a student of aviation ... ... much instruction regarding the making and manipulation of airships is to be garnered ... The book is the first of a series in which aviation will largely figure ...".

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