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By Robert Burleigh, Illustrations by Mike Wimmer Flight. Loneliness. Fear. Danger. The courage to dream.      Charles Lindbergh didn't know he would ever see Paris when he left Long Island early that morning in May 1927. But he did know that he had to try. He had a dream and he knew he had to make it real. He was just twenty-five years old.    Many thought he was foolish, too young to know better. No one before him had ever flown across the Atlantic alone without a stop. Why did this Lindbergh think he could? With no radio or parachute, and only two compasses and the stars to guide him, Lindbergh set off on his journey. The rest is history.    In Robert Burleigh's vivid, intimate telling, experience Charles Lindbergh's thirty-three and a half hours across the Atlantic as if you were there. Coupled with Mike Wimmer's bold, dramatic paintings, Flight is an extraordinary story of courage and endurance that will inspire anyone who has ever will inspire anyone who has ever followed a dream.