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 enlarge | Author: Mariana Gosnell
Publisher: Touchstone
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 237050
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0671892088
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.304929
EAN: 9780671892081
ASIN: 0671892088
Publication Date: July 21, 1994
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 Keen view of an often overlooked world July 4, 2001
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Ms. Gosnell offers us a wonderful extended visit with the great variety and unique personalities that populate the small general aviation airports of America. As a pilot who usually flies at bigger, less personal airports; I'm reminded of my experiences at the smaller fields I've visited where love of flying is more important than profit and people are truly unique. While the flying descriptions are well done and accurate, this book is really about the journey and the people and events encountered along the way. The book is for everyone, not just pilots. I'm going to pull out my charts and re-visit some of those small fields I usually just fly over!
 Booooring! April 30, 2001
3 out of 27 found this review helpful
Page 10 was the end of my tolerance level for this self-aggrandizing attempt at story telling. The constant distraction of the I/me/my/mine/myself's so overwhelm the prose, enjoyment of the read is rendered impossible. For example, on page eight, the author writes "I knew I wasn't holding mine very well because the airport rose up on my right rather than on my nose and I realized I'd wandered, or allowed myself to be blown, left of track. I adjusted my heading." The result is a boring rendition of what was probably exciting adventure.
 Another Luscombe Pilot July 6, 2000
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I only recently found a copy of this book and, having learned to fly in a Luscombe myself, felt a kindred spirit and acquired the book. Since I now fly a glass cockpit jet, I fear I have become too far removed from my roots. Ms. Gosnell's book helped me relive so many adventures of my own. Her book made me long for the simple yet intense adventures such a trek can provide.She does a great job of showing how aviation has a way of transcending social differences. She artfully expresses the attitudes of the aviation fraternity without overstating. Kudos to Ms. Gosnell. This book is a true adventure and Ms. Gosnell has a great story to tell. She is every womans's anywoman in an enviroment that is brutally equal to all who tread upon it, the sky!
Exciting way to see the country. November 16, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
With my AOPA Airport guide with me when I read, I kept track of where she flew each step of the way. Being a female pilot myself, I understood her feelings along the way. I hated to finish the book and end the wonderful experience. A trip I hope to make someday.
Destined to become a classic of light aviation - Wonderful!! April 14, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was so sorry when I had reached the last page!! This book is written with such clarity, such unjaded enthusiasm and love for flying that I was along with Marianna on each step of the coast to coast and back adventure!! I cringed and cowered at the dangerous parts - she took some real risks - not necessarily in the air!! I wanted to rescue the puppy!! If you are even remotely interested in light aircraft, this will whip up your enthusiasm - so take a break from your simulator and try a real simulator!! Enjoy!!
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