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ISBN10: 1550173812, ISBN13: 9781550173819, [publisher: Harbour Publishing Company] Softcover Crash landings were part of the job in the early 1930s, when Rex Terpening started out in arctic aviation. As an air engineer for Canadian Airways in the Northwest Territories, Terpening took the right-hand seat in the cockpit and flew "on operations" daily, warming the oil and the engine on winter mornings, refuelling, and inevitably mending both engine and aircraft when things went wrong. Terpening's beat stretched from Fort McMurray to the Arctic Ocean, and his remarkable bush-flying stories tell of planes wandering lost over unmapped muskeg, perilous rescue missions to retrieve stranded missionaries, dogged searches for downed flyers lost on the Barrens and emergency landings in blizzards on nameless pothole lakes. But there is humour, too, in tales of a drunken wolverine, a planeload of rambunctious sled dogs and a trip in a tiny Fairchild with a Catholic priest and the wife of an Anglican minister. And there are vivid evocations of the sheer joy of flying over the Arctic's raw beauty. Rex Terpening not only kept a meticulous journal from which these stories are derived, he carried his camera everywhere, snapping pictures of downed machines, their step-by-step resurrections, the men who flew them and those who fixed them. Most of those men and machines are gone now, but they live on in Bent Props and Blow Pots. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Large crea ...
Harbour Publishing 2006 Softcover Good Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Harbour, Date: 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. 8x6x1. Inside Text Has No Remarks Or Highlights. 338 Pages With The Index. Soft Cover. The Front And Rear Cover Has Some Surface Tears. 2Nd Soft Cover Edition.- We can ship from Canada and the USA, based on your address. Specializing in academic, collectible and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. 2006. Harbour ISBN 1550173812 9781550173819 [CA]
Harbour Publishing, Date: 2006. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2006. Harbour Publishing ISBN 1550173812 9781550173819 [US]
ISBN10: 1550173812, ISBN13: 9781550173819, [publisher: Harbour Publishing] Softcover Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35 [AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
Harbour 2006 Soft cover Very Good Size: 8x6x1; Inside Text Has No Remarks Or Highlights. 338 Pages With The Index. Soft Cover. The Front And Rear Cover Has Some Surface Tears. 2Nd Soft Cover Edition. based on your address. -We can ship from USA and Canada. Specializing in academic, collectible and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.
Harbour 2006 Soft cover Good Plus. No Jacket Book. Inscribed by Author(s) Good+ pictorial softcover. 2006. SIGNED/Inscribed by AUTHOR on title page. Previous owner's addy sticker stuck to half title page. Photos heavily throughout. Pages all clean. Moderate edge wear/scuffing. Covers clean. Binding solid. 338 pp.
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