William Frederick Durand was a distinguished United States naval officer and a pioneering mechanical engineer whose work significantly contributed to the development of aircraft propellers. As the first civilian chair of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the precursor to NASA, he played a pivotal role in shaping the future direction of aviation. His engineering expertise and vision laid the groundwork for advanced aeronautical technologies.
Prix de littérature nordique des Boréales - Roman noir
Divorcé, chômeur, Jonas accepte un poste d'instituteur dans un petit port perdu au nord de l'Islande. Il espère y mener une vie paisible, loin des hommes, mais la réalité s'avère un peu plus lugubre. Sourires hypocrites, intimidations, menaces, tentatives de meurtre... Dans le brouillard islandais, ce lieu supposé être un havre de paix ressemble furieusement à un traquenard!
From the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow comes this highly imaginative novel, In a Danish feudal castle, 1520, a count believes he has pinpointed the center of the universea patch of land on his estate. But when his discovery is met with disbelief, he walls off his mansion and has all of the clocks stopped. Four centuries pass instantaneously, and the count's young secretary, Carl, emerges from isolation to find a world bursting with war, innovation, love, sexuality, danger, and all the values of the sixteenth century turned upside down as though by supernatural forcesnamely, the force of history. From one of our most gifted international writers comes a dazzling epic fairy tale, a tough fable about the gifts and iniquities of progress.