For years the kite has been enjoying a worldwide resurgence in popularity. This comprehensive and marvelously illustrated book contains virtually every fact about kites. David Pelham begins with a fascinating history of kits and kite flying, noting how kites not only provide hours of relaxation and exercise to both mind and body today, but once were used for fishing, signalling over vast distances, measuring, and divining the secrets of the atmosphere - before coming to the kite's greatest role, as a precursor to the airplane.
