About this item
Winner of the Regional Literature Award (Great Southwest Book Festival: 2014). Nominated for the Gardner-Lasser History Literature Award (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014). In 2014 the book was winner of the PIP Award for "ground breaking research" through the Save Our Heritage Organisation of San Diego. Quest for Flight has been praised in; Technology and Culture (Project Muse), Journal of the West, CHOICE Magazine, Chronicle of Higher Education, Library Journal, and comes highly recommended in the 2013 University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries (American Association of University Presses: AAUP), and is recommended in the Pacific Historical Review (AHA) and Western Historical Quarterly.
About the Author
Craig S. Harwood is a fourth generation Californian centered in the San Francisco Bay region. He received his Bachelors of Science degree (Earth Sciences) from the University of California at Santa Cruz and has practiced as a professional engineering geologist since 1989. As a hobby he has enjoyed researching and writing about history. 2012 saw the release of his first book, (co-authored with Gary B. Fogel) entitled Quest For Flight (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012) . Quest for Flight has been honored with a Regional History Award (Great Southwest Book Festival, 2014) as well as SOHO's People In Preservation Award for "outstanding research" (Save Our Heritage Organisation, 2014) . Craig is the great, great grandson of a prominent California politician and attorney active in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Zachariah Montgomery (1825-1900) .In addition to the above-mentioned awards the manuscript version of Quest for Flight has been nominated for AIAA's History Manuscript Award, and the resulting book has been nominated for the AIAA's Gardner-Lasser Aviation Literature Award (2014) , and also nominated for the Soaring Society of America's Joseph C. Lincoln Book Award (2014) . Additionally the book achieved 2nd place in the Great Midwest Book Award.
