A handbook on making kites, containing 19 designs. It covers aerodynamics, stability, bridling, launching, and construction materials, with step-by-step instructions. Each kite project is illustrated with a full-page photograph and a grid plan that can be enlarged using a photocopier. Every other spread provides a continuing story of the history and mythology of the kite in different cultures - China, Japan, Maori, Polynesia, Thailand, India, Bali and Ancient Greece, as well as in modern Europe and the USA. It also discusses the kite's military, meteorological, aviation and artistic functions.
- ISBN10 1895569176
- ISBN13 9781895569179
- Publish Date 1 March 1999 (first published 30 June 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 January 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Sterling Juvenile
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English