01011cam a2200241 4500 68892610 TxAuBib 20060314120000.0 ||||||s1987||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 86-025473 9780140507294 pbk. 0140507299 pbk. DLC TxAuBib Provensen, Alice. The glorious flight : across the Channel with Louis Blériot, July 25, 1909 / Alice and Martin Provensen. New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1987. 39 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 25 cm. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1983. A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel. 20060314. Blériot, Louis, 1872-1936 Juvenile literature. Provensen, Martin.