Glacier Pilot

Henry Holt and Company, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Edition Stated dust jacket is not price clipped. Book and dust jacket have wear to edges. Dust jacket has small (1/4") tears to top of spine. Binding is square and tight, pages are clean. Illustrated with Photographs Here is the rousing story of Bob Reeve, Alaska's first glacier pilot, and of the tough, planes, without communications, navigational aids, or airfields. It is a story of how raw courage, incredible determination, a strong sense of humor, and an unquenchable lust for life and excitement helped to convert a rugged frontier into the Alaska of today. In 1932, when Bob Reeve climbed off a freighter at Valdez, Alaska, he was broke, ill, and without a plane to fly. Today Reeve is running a successful commercial airline through "the worst weather in the world" along the fog-shrouded Aleutian chain. Between 1932 and the present, Reeve has made a career of doing the kind of flying that no one else wanted to do, and his exploits have won him the description of "half-bird" and the title of "the greatest rough-terrain pilot of our continent. The book you see in the images is the actual book we have for sale. When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.