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Voyage of the Southern Sun
Michael Smith
其他書名
An Amazing Solo Journey Around the World
出版
Black Inc.
, 2017-10-30
主題
Transportation / Aviation / General
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Travel / Special Interest / Adventure
ISBN
1925435806
9781925435801
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IEw0DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In 2015, Michael Smith set out on a remarkable mission and became the first person to fly solo around the world in an amphibious plane. This is the often funny, occasionally terrifying and always inspiring story of that trip, and how it came about.
With limited flying experience, no support team and only basic instruments in his tiny flying boat, the Southern Sun, Michael risked his life to make modern aviation history. His adventures include an unexpected greeting by Special Branch on his arrival in the UK, a near-death experience while leaving Greenland, and a wondrous journey up the Mississippi.
Showing a very Australian ingenuity and openness to experience, Michael worked his way around the globe. In seven months he made eighty stops in twenty-five countries, visiting many unusual places and, more often than not, encountering the kindness of strangers.
‘Great Aussie spirit in a good old-fashioned, seat-of-the-pants adventure’ —Dick Smith
‘The blue-sky dreaming of Walter Mitty, the resourcefulness of Phileas Fogg and – dare I say it? – the over-confidence and geniality of Mr Toad in a flying machine. Surely these literary figures were the inspiration for such an adventure. A marvellous exploit and wonderfully told.’ —A.J. Mackinnon, author
The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow