Les Champs d'Azur #3

The third volume of Frank Giroud and Luc Brahy's Les Champs d'Azur takes the series airborne with the evocatively titled "Paris-Madrid." Brahy's cover captures a beautiful early biplane banking low over a grassy field while a group of onlookers — hats in hand, necks craned skyward — scramble and crane beside a period automobile, the whole scene radiating the breathless wonder of early aviation. Published by Glénat in 2011, this album promises the same blend of historical atmosphere and human drama that makes this series such a compelling journey.