Author: DOVER, ED
Title: The Long Way Home Captain Ford's Epic Journey
Description: Mclean, VA: Paladwr Press, 1999. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1888962003. B&W Illustrations & Photographs; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author, with a short inscription, on the front endpaper. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition, with the exception of some bumping to the bottom corners. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but there is some light bumping to the bottom corners, and a 1" tear to the rear spine joint. "Captain Ford was ferrying mail and passengers from San Francisco to New Zealand aboard a Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper on Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Skirting the trouble zone and watching for enemy aircraft, he headed the flying boat west over Australia, India and Central Africa, then crossed to South America, eventually making a safe landing at the Marine Terminal at what is now La Guardia Airport in New York on Jan. 6, 1942. The entire trip covered 31,500 miles in 209.5 hours of flying time, some of it over war territory. The Clipper had a range of 4,500 miles, and its longest single flight was 3,583 miles across the South Atlantic from Douala, in what is now Cameroon in Central Africa, to Brazil." (from New York TImes Obituary) ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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