Arctic Bush Pilot - by Anderson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Backed by Wien Airlines, former Navy combat pilot "Andy" Anderson pioneered post-World War II bush service to Alaska's vast Koyokuk River region serving miners, Natives, sportsmen, geologists, adventurers, and assorted bush rats. He flew mining equipment, gold, live wolves and sled dogs, you name it -- anything needed for life in the bush. He sweated out dozens of dangerous medical-emergency flights, "always at night and in terrible storms."<BR><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Backed by Wien Airlines, former Navy combat pilot "Andy" Anderson pioneered post-World War II bush service to Alaska's vast Koyokuk River region serving miners, Natives, sportsmen, geologists, adventurers, and assorted bush rats. <BR>He flew mining equipment, gold, live wolves and sled dogs, you name it -- anything needed for life in the bush. He sweated out dozens of dangerous medical-emergency flights, "always at night and in terrible storms." <BR>Illustrated with 50 historical photos and co-authored by one of Alaska's most popular writers, ARCTIC BUSH PILOT is an exciting and sometimes nostalgic account of a pioneer pilot and his special place in Alaska aviation history.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Andy Anderson stood out as the most generous of pilots and the most gracious of hosts." --Tom Wardleigh, Alaska Aviation Safety Foundation<br><br>"I have never read a better account of the country and the people I know so well. It is a great story of a bootstrap-up, pioneering bush pilot. Every reader will become absorbed with the story of Andy Anderson who made such a difference to the people, and in the transportation, in Alaska's Koyukuk Country." --Professor Ernest N. Wolff, University of Alaska Fairbanks (retired)<br><br>"I've never read a book that so skillfully puts the reader into a bush pilot's head and so compellingly captures the drama, adventure, and misadventure of Arctic flying." --Cliff Cernick, "Flyer" magazine<br>
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