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Product #: 0128
Price: $39.95
144 pages
Hardbound
9 3/4" x 13 1/4"
Aviation, Photography
189 color photos
Pub Date: 1989
ISBN: 1-55868-012-8
Graphic Arts Center Publishing
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Take a deep breath, buckle your seat belt, and turn the pages of BUSH PILOTS OF ALASKA. You are about to fly over American's Last Frontier with some of the most skilled, colorful, and downright friendly pilots anywhere in the world. This is a book about the American spirit, about romanticism and realism, about a land so big and beautiful it defies description, and about men and women who love nothing more than to climb into their small planes, turn over the prop, and fly over that endless land. . . Each page is a vicarious thrill, each photograph a window into the way Alaskans get around to live, work, and play. Bush planes are to Alaska what covered wagons and railroads were to the Old West--a lifeline.
"Having flown with bush pilots in Alaska, both as a pilot and passenger, I know firsthand about the rewards and risks that bush pilots are exposed to. Now you can experience all of these rewards without the risk by reading BUSH PILOTS OF ALASKA. The photos by Fred Hirschmann are wonderful."
--General Chuck Yeager"This book explores the spirit and realism of bush flying in Alaska, an occupation full of richness and beauty and sacrifice and challenge as well. Bush flying might be viewed as a microcosm of the spirit of Alaska, and this book preserves that spirit in a dimension that benefits us all."
--Roberta Sheldon "Breathtaking pictures. . . and wonderful tales of the giants of yesteryear. . . as well as anecdotes of the recent past that will make everyone marvel and, hopefully, tempt many to fly with a bush pilot in Alaska. . . or, maybe even be one."
--Bradford Washburn ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Once a ranger at Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park, photographer and writer Fred Hirschmann has provided the spectacular photography for eleven photo-essay books, including ALASKA FROM THE AIR, ROCK ART OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, ALASKA, PORTRAIT OF ALASKA, ARIZONA, and PORTRAIT OF FRED HIRSCHMANN is a professional photographer based in Wasilla, Alaska.
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