- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (Dec 7 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1579120253
- ISBN-13: 978-1579120252
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 20.8 x 4.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #380,896 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Book Description
The most comprehensive and fully illustrated bible to kite design, construction and flying basics ever published.
About the Author
Eden Maxwell is a painter, writer, and kiteflier of some note. He grew up on the mean streets of the inner city and fought his way out of the projects to find his walking shoes.
He has contributed to many publications—from Popular Science to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and his art is in private collection here and abroad. Eden's the bestselling author of Kiteworks and The Magnificent Book of Kites, Sterling Publishing; he's also ghostwritten books for HarperCollins and Kensington publishers.
Eden blogs regularly about purpose, meaning, and persevering as an artist on his website--http://www.edensart.com.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Read : kite construction book!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Magnificent Book of Kites: Explorations in Design, Construction, Enjoyment & Flight (Hardcover)
This book has several original designs, but some are just overly complicated and time consuming to build. You should try building a simple design : the Trefoil Delta kite! I credit Maxwell Eden particularly for including many useful tips on construction (seams, connectors, knots etc). Together with the book by Pelham you could not go wrong, anytime!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Kites, Kites and More Kites,
By Shalizeh "shalizeh2" (California United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Magnificent Book of Kites: Explorations in Design, Construction, Enjoyment & Flight (Hardcover)
This book has an array of kites from easy to make to complicated ones. It has step by step instructions and are easy to follow. I bought it to teach students and they had a ball. Is good for elementary to high school students and also for parents to teach their children the fun of kite creation.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great book but badly edited,
By dcom (Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Magnificent Book of Kites: Explorations in Design, Construction, Enjoyment & Flight (Hardcover)
This book is magnificent but it is filled with many annoying errors, such as references to illustrations that aren't in the book. It seems that the job of rearranging the original 'Kite-Maker' book was botched. This means that I only give the book 3 stars, otherwise it would have been 5 stars.
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