They had a gun; they had a plane - powerful as any genii to be summoned from a magic lamp. And yet, magic rests on a knife-edge - a lamp, a tinderbox, an "open sesame." It is a hair-bridge between captivity and escape; safety and danger; life and death.
Anne Morrow LindberghAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: June 22, 1906
- Died: February 7, 2001
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