Early Birds: Magnificent Men of Australian Aviation Between the Wars by H C Miller

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket is in fair condition with wear to top edge and remnants of a gold sticker on back cover. Light foxing to foredges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Inscribed by Horrie Miller, Mary Durack and Elizabeth Durack.

In the days when aircraft were little more than box kites with engines, Horrie Miller, a young Australian in love with flying, went to Britain to learn how to build and fly aircraft.

There's a Magnificent Men flavour to his adventures before WWI, which becomes more sombre when he joins the Royal Flying Corps and sees service in France. Then he returns to Australia to give a fascinating picture of the abounding optimism with which fliers tried to start Australian civil air services.

His story, telling of the unreliable, sometimes bizarre aircraft, the daring flights and the flamboyant fliers, is a vivid piece of modern Australian history and a constantly enthralling narrative. (back cover)