The Zeppelin Reader: Stories, Poems, and Songs from the Age of Airships Book

	Introduction
	The Air Ship
	Report to the King of Wurttemberg, 1887	3
	Through Heavens Hitherto Unsailed	4
	Stanley Spencer over London	12
	Come, Take a Trip in My Air-Ship	16
	from Chauffeur of the Skies	20
	The Lost La Patrie	31
	En Dirigeable	32
	For Zeppelin	39
	The Flight of the LZ 4	41
	Aboard the America over the Atlantic	47
	from Zeppelin	67
	The Zeppelin Polka	75
	The Rigger Tells a Tale	77
	Fly, Zeppelin: A Children's Song	81
	Raids on London	82
	from The World Crisis	88
	Report from Royal Engineers	90
	from A Letter to Her Son, August 1915	91
	from A Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell, September 9, 1915	92
	from The Journals of Arnold Bennett, October 18, 1915	93
	from Report of the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars, September 25, 1916	94
	from Report on the Downing of the L 31, October 1, 1916	96
	from In London during the Great War, October 1, 1916	98
	from Memoirs of World War I, October 19, 1917	101
	Zeppelin Nights	106
	The Zeppelin	107
	By Chanctonbury	109
	I Know a Blithe Blossom in Blighty	110
	from The Airship Boys in Africa	111
	Seeing America from the Shenandoah	141
	The Wreck of the Shenandoah	171
	The Zeppelin March: "Los Angeles" U.S.A.	175
	On the Z-R-3	177
	Phenomena	181
	from Beyond Horizons	183
	On the Graf Zeppelin	193
	A Sentimental Journey to Egypt	195
	Out of the Blue	204
	from The Millionth Chance: The Story of the R 101	211
	The Zeppelin Factory	219
	from Even the Birds: U.S.S. Akron	222
	Akron: Queen of the Skies	225
	Images of Little Compton, Rhode Island	229
	The Violent Death of America's Last Dirigible	230
	An Elegy	242
	The Hangar at Sunnyvale: 1937	244
	The Week the Dirigible Came	246
	The Incorrigible Dirigible	247
	The Luck of the Zeppelin	249
	Two 27-Hour Days	251
	I Will Not Follow the Hindenburg	262
	from A Complaint for Mary and Marcel	264
	The Hindenburg Disaster	269
	Ascension Day, 1937: Pictures of an Actual Disaster	271
	Your Departure versus the Hindenburg	279
	If the Hindenburg Had Left from Las Vegas	280
	Zimmer and the Age of Zeppelins	281
	The Afterlives of Count Zeppelin	282
	Acknowledgments	283
	Index	289