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Can I read Biggles Learns to Fly on EtoBox?
Biggles Learns to Fly by William Earl Johns is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Biggles Learns to Fly about?
Biggles is back! And with new retro-style covers he'll be bigger than ever!He tilted the machine on to its side, holding up his nose with the throttle, and commenced to slip wing-tip first towards the ground. Whether he was over British or German territory he neither knew nor cared; he had to get on to the ground or be burnt alive.This is the story of the very beginning – of the Air Service and of Biggles. It's the First World War and Biggles is just 17; the planes are primitive; combat tactics are non-existent; and pilots and their gunners communicate by hand signals and have no contact with the ground. This is where Biggles learns his craft and finds he has a certain aptitude for flying in battle...
Who reads Biggles Learns to Fly?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- William Earl Johns
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780006914402
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Adventure, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.93 / 5 (534 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
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