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ON EXTENDED WINGS: An Adventure in Flight.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning poet Diane Ackerman describes how she gained mastery over the mysteries of flight and earned her private pilot's license, of her frustration and exhilaration during hours of lessons and seemingly endless touch and go's of her first solo and her first cross-country flights, and of the teachers and pilots and aviation enthusiasts with whom she flew. Glossary. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-689115407.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, 2 small chips to dj)
Book ID: 86504More details Price: $17.50 -
STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING: The Biography of Beryl Markham.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first biography of this English-born Kenyan aviator who became Africa's first female thoroughbred trainer and its first female bush pilot. In 1936, she became the first pilot to fly solo from England to North America - against the headwinds. Shortly before her death, Lovell was able to interview Markham, and they become friends.Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. xxiv, 408 pp. ISBN: 0-312010966.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 78730More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LIVES OF BERYL MARKHAM: Out of Africa's Hidden Free Spirit and Denys Finch Hatton's Last Great Love.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very good in a very near fine dust jacket (binding cracking between pp 146-147, but the book is still tight and straight, bump to top edge of rear board).
Book ID: 84956More details Price: $20.00