The Flying Boat That Fell to Earth
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The Flying Boat That Fell to Earth by Graham Coster
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.
'A fascinating and strangely inspiring story' William Boyd; 'Beautifully told' Jeremy Clarkson; `Part history, part travelogue, part essay, it is a hybrid like the machines it celebrates, and like them, it gets triumphantly airborne. . Some of the best reflective writing about nostalgia that I have ever read’ Francis Spufford, Evening Standard; `The extraordinary story of the Corsair is a good yarn, and yarns are as hard to come by in commercial flying these days as leather upholstery and hulls rubbed with beeswax’ The Times; `A proper piece of literature, beautifully written and grabbing one’s attention from the first lines … The description of people and places is the sort of thing you once would have expected from writers like Norman Lewis and Eric Newby - a wonderful read in its own right and journalism of the highest standard’ Pilot magazine
Graham Coster’s other books include Snow Stopped Play, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere and The Picador Book of Aviation. He lives in London.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780993291166 |
| ISBN 10 | 0993291163 |
| Title | The Flying Boat That Fell to Earth |
| Author | Graham Coster |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Safe Haven Books |
| Year published | 2019-01-10 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |