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. . . is about escaping into the skies of a bygone era with a 1929-design biplane. “Starting from a metal and concrete hangar of a big-city airport and watching steel and glass skyscrapers of Dallas and Fort Worth disappear, we pulled the prairie sod toward us as though closing a roll-top desk over the clutter of modern life.” During summer trips across America and winging around Texas in the long months in between, Anne Hopkins learned much about flying—wind and sky, doped fabric and hoses, charts and instruments—but even more about life—the land, its creatures, its people, herself. These are the stories of a woman who took up flying on a whim one sunny morning in Arizona and years later climbed into her biplane to head out of Idaho toward a sunset blizzard. We laugh with her as she flies while folding a five-foot chart in a two-foot cockpit or sheds a flying helmet, uncovering sprigs of hair " ...bent into abrupt angles like barbed wire gone awry.” | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Price $26.95 $21.95 $19.95 | Edition | ISBN 0-9720015-0-6 0-9720015-1-4 0-9720015-2-2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
309 pages, Illustrated | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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