Ned Rozell

Alaska's Bush Planes (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The passion for flight has seized Alaska flyersand those who yearn to fly to the Last Frontiersince 1913, when the first biplane arrived in crates via steamship and paddle-wheeler. In the decades to follow, Alaska's skies buzzed with aircraftsome brand-new, others patched together, and still others lovingly restored to their original beauty. Alaska's Bush Planes offers a brief history of flight in Alaska, then transports the reader on a visual journey with favorite aircraft, some of which have served for decades. It's a perfect book for the pilotor the pilot wannabewho dreams of flying in the Northland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780882409542
• Artikelnr.: 40184315

Autorenporträt

Ned Rozell has walked, skied, driven, and flown across Alaska, and he's lived there more than half his life, so it must be home. He's written more than 700 weekly newspaper columns about natural history and science, and has written 80 more for Alaska Magazine. He has three Alaska-related books and counting; Walking My Dog, Jane, is about that hike across Alaska with a dog that won't come along again. His latest work is Alaska Tracks: Footprints in the Big Country from Ambler to Attu.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Those Who Flew
Introduction: Frontier Flight in the 21st Century
The Interior: A Silencing Cold
Southeast: Land of Mountains and Waterways
Southcentral: Gateway to the Bush
The Arctic: Above the Dazzling White
Western Alaska: Soaring O'er the Delta