Wild Blue: Stories of Survival from Air and Space (Adrenaline)

by William Garvey, Clint Willis, David Fisher

Book Overview

Wild Blue collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement of the century: controlled flight. Charles Lindbergh takes readers wing-walking in a barnstorming... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560252510
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

GREAT STORIES

The History of manned flight spans just under a century, but it includes some of the most glorious adventures in human experiences. Wild Blue draws upon first-hand accounts of life-and-death adventures. Many are told by the pilots themselves such as veterans of combat,crashes, space walks and other airborne epics. Once again anybody for a love of aviation will love this book!

Anyone who aspires to become a pilot must read this book!

I am a student pilot working on my private pilot's license and have been wrestling with my own fears and anxiety while flying solo. A friend got me this book for Christmas, and the stories have been so riveting and inspirational - now I can't wait to go flying again! What sets this book apart is the quality of the writing and the storytelling - each of the authors/writers in this compilation is skilled not only in flying but with the written word! Excellent, I cannot recommend this book highly enough!!

So good all aviation friends have read it and loved it...

This book is awesome if you want to get a taste of everything that great aviation writing has to offer. There are stories from almost every top-notch book in aviation and you'll probably do like I did and buy every book represented in Wild Blue. The stories are hand picked from selected novels and they will all have you glued to the book, this is one of those books that you just can't bring yourself to put down. Check out my other reviews on the books represented in this one...

The Right Stuff

If you love stories of air or space, read this book. I don't have time to read every good book in the field, so the selected cream of the crop is much appreciated.

The Best of the Best

Each segment is culled from the best in aviation stories and leaves you wanting to read more of the original work. I started it on a flight from Chicago to Seattle and never put it down. I'm on my way to buy "Fate is the Hunter."