Lindbergh's own account of his famous flight across the Atlantic in 1927. He explains the preparations for the flight, the designing of the airplane and the preparations of his competitors. The flight itself takes up most of the book, and I got a very good idea of what it must have been like to be alone, in a small plane for 33 hours. He describes his insecurities about the weather and his route, the discomfort and fatigue (not only did he have to stay awake for 33 hours during the flight, but he hadn't had any sleep for 23 hours prior to the flight). As the flight progresses, he reminisces about his life, telling of his childhood, his parents, his philosophies of life (sadly, they don't include God). The most interesting parts of the book for me were his flashbacks to the period when he was barnstorming around the country and piloting a mail plane between St. Louis and Chicago. he had many crack-ups, had to parachute to safety several times, toured as a wing walker, and once, put his plane through the wall of a hardware store. The final section of the book is a partial list of the awards, gifts and testimonials he received from countries, states, organizations and people. They fill several pages and include medals, plaques, keys to cities, lifetime passes to baseball games, a German shepherd dog (from an anonymous donor), chandeliers, serapes and decorative gourds. The book gives a good picture of what life was like in the United States in the 1920s, and how great an impression Lindbergh's feat had on the population.