Glacier pilot: The story of Bob Reeve and the flyers who pushed back Alaska's air frontiers

by Beth Day Romulo and Beth Day

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345236254
• ISBN13: 9780345236258
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Flying in a Wilderness

"...the rousing story of Bob Reeve, Alaska's first glacier pilot, and one of the tough, salty, adventuring bunch of bush pilots who pioneered Alaska's skies in single-engine planes without communications, navigational aids, or airfields." "In 1932 when Bob Reeve climbed off a freighter in 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." "Reeve has made a career of soing the kind of flying that no one else wanted to do, and his exploits have earned him the name 'Half-Bird.'"