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Fate Is the Hunter
Fate Is the Hunter
Author: Gann
"This book is an episodic log of some of the more memorable of the author's nearly ten thousand hours aloft in peace and (as a member of the Air Transport Command) in war. It is also an attempt to define by example his belief in the phenomenon of luck--that 'the pattern of anyone's fate is only partly contrived by the individual.'" (The New York...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780671246808
ISBN-10: 0671246801
Publication Date: 12/1/2010
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Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
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For anyone who loves to fly, this book is a must read. As a pilot in today's technology based world, reading this book was like stepping into a time machine back to the early days of commercial aviation. You're thinking that this can't be too exciting? Forget it, Gann leaves you white knuckled and wishing for more as he tells the true, (as he keeps reminding us, true as HE remembers them), stories of the adventurous, daring, and deadly dangerous days of the beginnings of the airlines, and their part in the clandestine lead up to WWII, and into the war. My favorite part is the first chapter which explains how the lives of the crews and passengers of those aerial schooners sometimes hung by a thread, (or at least 50 feet). I just wish he made this book a few hundred pages longer!