The Flying Boat That Fell to Earth: A Lost World of Air Travel and Africa

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Reissue with new title and afterword of travel book previously published by Penguin in 1999 as Corsairville, about the Imperial Airways flying boats in Africa.
Half boat, half aeroplane, taking off in a thrilling tumult of spray, the flying boat was the journey of a lifetime, Imperial Airways legendary Empire boats flying up the Nile in nightly hops and alighting on lakes and in harbours all the way down to South Africa. But in 1939 the Empire boat Corsair came down in fog on a tiny river in the Belgian Congo and, through an epic salvage operation, gave its name to a new village in an obscure backwater of Central Africa. The Flying Boat That Fell to Earth, re-published with a new Afterword, tells the story of this amazing adventure, and seeks out, from Alaska to the Bahamas, the very last places on earth where it was still possible to catch a flying boat.
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Weight 0.000000
Author Coster, Graham
Availability IP
Department Travel Writing
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780993291166
Pages 304
Published 10/01/2019
Publisher Compass Books
Section Travel Writing: General
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