"The Airport book" traces the development of the modern international airport from the early days where any cleared meadow or park could be used as an airport up to the large, concrete runways and modern terminals of the late 1970s.  While there have been many books on aviation history and hundreds of books on aircraft, "The Airport Book" is the first to focus exclusively on the history of the modern international airport.  "The Airport Book" traces the development of the modern airport from the first canvas seaplane hangers of World War I to the bustling, high technology air terminals of the late twentieth century.  Along the way in this broad survey of airports the reader will learn about: 1) The first truly international terminals of Europe of the 1920s; 2) See why the first large North American Airports were deliberately designed to resemble railroad stations; 3) A collection of prize-winning Art Deco renderings from the world's first architectural competition for the design of airports in 1929; 4) Long forgotten visionary schemes including a series of floating seadromes that would allow for trans-oceanic flight and 5) An extraordinary New York airport design that was to have consisted of a large concrete circle supported by six eight-story skyscrapers.  "The Airport Book" also reviews a gallery of contemporary jetports from five continents that graphically illustrate just how far the airport has progressed during the twentieth century.  The major sections of "The Airport Book" are as follows: 1) Preface; 2) Introduction; 3) Chapter 1 - Touching down - Meadows, Fairgrounds, Country Clubs, And Cemeteries; 4) Chapter 2 - The Dawn Of Commercial Aviation - The First Landing Fields; 5) Chapter 3 - Le Bourget, Croydon, And Templehof - The First International Airports; 6) Chapter 4 - Looking Into The Future - The Architectural Competition Of 1927-29; 7) Chapter 5 - The Airport As Railroad Terminal - Flying In The '20s And '30s; 8) Chapter 6 - Dreams And Visions - Seadromes, Mooring Masts, And Skyports; 9) Chapter 7 - The Airport Goes To War; 10) Chapter 8 - Winging It In The Jet Age - The Modern Terminal; 11) Credits and 12) Index.  In addition to an informative narrative, "The Airport Book" includes the following features: 1) Approximately 227 black and white photographs and 2) 3 black and white illustrations.  The excitement of the evolution of airports is superbly captured in the pages of "The Airport Book".  This book is 192 pages and is in very good condition.  The author is Martin Greif.  Addition published in 1979.