the high and the mighty book

Hardcover.

Ernest K Gann was an aviator, author, filmmaker, sailor, fisherman and conservationist.Ernest K Gann was an aviator, author, filmmaker, sailor, fisherman and conservationist. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less. The spine may show signs of wear. Condition: Good. Condition: Good. After seeing the movie made from this novel, and then reading this novel, I understand why it was used. Free shipping over $10. The story is of an airliner flying from Hawaii to San Francisco back in … one of Ernie Gann's finest, if not the best. Sloane.

At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less. Darker moisture stain on lower edge of spine and boards. That being said, it is a well researched, informative book. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. If you flew in passenger aircraft during the piston era of the '40-50s and love airplanes, you must read this book. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition.

Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Condition: Good. The spine remains undamaged. Written by an author who had piloted such flights, the novel contains vivid descriptions of air travel and navigational assistance during the period following World War Two, as well as memorable characters and a tension-filled plotline.An ill-fated commercial airplane flights--when airplanes were machines flown by pilots not computers--is a metaphor for the lives of each of the passengers and crew--and in all cases, including the flight, the outcomes is a happy one.

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Inc., 1953. Buy The High and the Mighty by Ernest K. Gann online at Alibris. Sie besteht aus dem Rapper Mr. Eon (The High, bürgerlicher Name Erik Meltzer) und dem Produzenten DJ Mighty Mi (The Mighty, bürgerlicher Name Milo Berger). When Noel Buntine first arrived in the Northern Territory in 1950, he was told he was not qualified to hold a responsible government position … but that didn’t stop him pioneering road transport of livestock in the Top End and the Kimberley, long before there were roads … and, with persistence and determination, went on to build a multi-million dollar trucking empire that traversed more than half of the continent, from Geraldton in Western Australia across to Queensland and New South Wales.

[Ernest Kellogg Gann] -- A group of people, casual traveling companions, approach the critical period in their lives, as their crippled plane flies from Hawaii to San Francisco. The Dollmaker/The Anatomy of a Crime/Love is Eternal/Around a Rusty God/The High and the Mighty (Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Volume 4: 1954)Reader's Digest Association. As entertaining as the film if not more so.Never knew one of my favorite John Wayne movies was based on a book. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text.

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Shelf wear. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text.

Former Library book. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The movie was produced as the book was published (both being written by Ernest K. Gann), based the success of Gann's earlier "Island in the Sky. Minor shelfwear, spine end slightly faded. This book is the prototype for every aviation disaster movie ever made, but does it better than them. The dust jacket is missing. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Small pencilled pricing notation on upper right corner of ffep can be erased. Condition: Fair. The credibility and technical accuracy of the story is clearly augmented by the author's own experiences as a pilot and this remains a classic of aviation literature. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Gann 's prose examines each of these characters and the flight's development in turn and expertly, as a observer of men and as a man schooled considerably in commercial flight in America in the post WWII era. The dust jacket is missing.