The lost pilots : the spectacular rise and scandalous fall of aviation's golden couple
Mead, Corey2018
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The Sahara Desert, February 1962: the wreckage of a plane emerges from the sands revealing, too, the body of the plane's long-dead pilot. But who was he? And what had happened to him? Baker Street, London, June 1927: 25-year-old Jessie Miller had fled a loveless marriage in Australia, longing for adventure in the London of the Bright Young Things. At a gin-soaked party, she met Bill Lancaster, fresh from the Royal Air force, his head full of a scheme that would make him as famous as Charles Lindbergh, who has just crossed the Atlantic. Lancaster wanted to fly three times as far - from London to Melbourne - and in Jessie Miller he knew he had found the perfect co-pilot. By the time they landed in Melbourne, the daring aviators were a global sensation - and, despite still being married to other people, deeply in love.
Main title:
Author:
Mead, Corey, author
Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2018.
Collation:
viii, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Flatiron Books.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781509828494 (hbk)
Dewey class:
629.1300922629.13 MIL
Language:
English
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BRN:
2659509