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Title: Flying South: A Pilot's Inner Journey by Barbara Cushman Rowell, Galen A. Rowell, Frans Lanting ISBN: 1-58008-471-0 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: There are no old bold pilots
Comment: I am not sure if this is a travel book, a flying book, or a book towards self discovery. It seems to be a little of each, but not enough of each. As a travel book, I get only a sense of the towns she visits, and the cultures she adores. She gives snippets, and I wanted more. As a flying book, she reveals the most about herself. She is (was) a poor pilot. She set aside her responsibilities as pilot in command and did whatever Doug told her to do, no matter the danger. Her go-no go decisions were terrible, and every novice pilot should learn from her example. As a journey into self discovery, the book was its strongest. How does the spouse of a famous and outgoing person carve out an identity of her own? This was very interesting, and here the author found her voice.
Rating: 5
Summary: A look into the world of the risk-taker
Comment: This book is a fascinating look into the world of the risk-taker and the cult of risk-taking. There is no doubt that Barbara Cushman Rowell took an inner journey. She lays all her fears before us and conquers them. Along with this journey are her husband Galen and fellow pilot Doug Tompkins, two wild adventurers who lead Barbara into risky decisions she usually regrets. In the process of wrestling with herself, her husband and Tompkins she puts us inside the cockpit during harrowing landings, inclement weather and her own demons.
Rating: 3
Summary: good for airplane nerds
Comment: If you own an airplane and have been wondering why your insurance company won't let you take it south of Mexico, this book will clear up the confusion. The risks of flying over unfamiliar territory, without intermediate weather reports, in the pre-GPS days are astonishing. The book starts off weak, with a lot of psychobabblish pondering that is unlikely to appeal to the pilots for whom the latter portion of the book will be interesting. Beautifully printed and bound. Unless you plan to be immortal, however, I wouldn't recommend the book to a non-pilot; there are better books with which to occupy your limited time on the planet.
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Title: Flying Carpet: The Soul of an Airplane by Gregory N. Brown, Greg Brown, Stephen Coonts ISBN: 0813808081 Publisher: Iowa State Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: 19 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Flying the Alaska Wild: The Adventures and Misadventures of an Alaska Bush Pilot by Mort D. Mason ISBN: 0896585891 Publisher: Voyageur Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Galen Rowell's Inner Game of Outdoor Photography by Galen A. Rowell, Galen Rowell ISBN: 039304985X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 18 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: True North: Exploring the Great Wilderness by Bush Plane by George Erickson ISBN: 1592281567 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Wager with the Wind : The Don Sheldon Story by James Greiner ISBN: 0312853378 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1982 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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