Daniels said later “we couldn’t help thinking they were just a pair of poor nuts who would stand on the beach for hours at a time watching the gulls flying, soaring, dipping” This demonstrates that, despite the fact that the Wright Brothers were not born into a family of great wealth, the reference to curiosity is a nod to living intentionally. The greatest thing in our favour was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement towards intellectual curiosity”. Wilbur Wright: “We had no special advantages. We discuss a variety of Taimur’s highlights, below are some of the ones that sparked more conversation during our discussion: It contains timeless themes relevant to any and all forms of human endeavour, so in addition to being an amazing story about a turning point for the human race, there’s a lot we can learn from it. It’s a biography of Wilbur and Orville Wright, best known for inventing the airplane. The Wright Brothers soars' ( The New York Times Book Review).In this episode, we talk about “The Wright Brothers” by David McCullough.

Essential reading, this is 'a story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency.about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished.

He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. In this 'enjoyable, fast-paced tale' ( The Economist), master historian David McCullough 'shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly' ( The Washington Post) and 'captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished' ( The Wall Street Journal). Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers-bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio-changed history. The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize-the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly-Wilbur and Orville Wright.

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough