2011, ISBN: 9781584651901

Paperback, Hardcover

1977 Edition: Turtle Island. Very Good+. 1977. First Edition. Softcover. 0913666173 . Illustrated cover, clean and bright with mild shelf wear to edges, age toning to back panel. First… More...

1977 Edition: Turtle Island. Very Good+. 1977. First Edition. Softcover. 0913666173 . Illustrated cover, clean and bright with mild shelf wear to edges, age toning to back panel. First edition, paperback original. Book is firm in binding, b&w illustrations, interior is bright and clean. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 293 pages ., Turtle Island, 1977, 3, San Rafael, California : Insight Editions, 2011. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Table Book, [27.5cm/11inches], chrome-embossed pictorial blue cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 255, indexed. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. In 1992, Peter McMillan and Lang Kidby were camping on Moreton Island, off the east coast of Australia. The two friends had shared flying experiences in the past and were considering new adventures. As their conversation drifted to aviation history, they noted that the Vickers Vimy had largely been forgotten, as had the impact of her three record-setting flights shortly after World War I. What an amazing experience it would be, they mused, to retrace the trails of those early aviators. Thus the Vimy project was born. But to reenact the Vimy’s achievements, it would be necessary to re-create the Vimy herself. As Peter and Lang reached out to other aviation enthusiasts, they met John LaNoue, who replicated a Vimy factory in a hangar in Northern California and, with the help of engineers, designers, and many volunteers, spent a year and a half building a modern Vimy. By 1994, the replica was ready for her first long-distance flight. The next year, Peter and Lang reenacted the 1919 epic journey of Ross and Keith Smith by flying the replica from England to Australia..Two more flights remained. In 1999, John LaNoue and Mark Rebholz successfully flew the replica from England to South Africa. Their predecessors, Pierre van Ryneveld and C. J. Quintin Brand, had been unable to complete their flight, having crashed their Vimy near an airfield in Zimbabwe in 1920..The Vimy team wondered if they had the energy and the resources for the final flight-the reenactment of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown’s nonstop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1919. Meeting renowned aviator Steve Fossett provided the resources and impetus to move forward. In July 2005, with Steve as pilot and Mark as navigator, the Vimy replica completed her final long-distance flight., Insight Editions, 2011, 2.5, Hanover: University Press of New England, 2002. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. Very good. ix, [3], 102, [6] pages. Inscribed and dated by the author on half-title. Willem Lange was born in 1935 and first came to New England to prep school in 1950 as an alternative to reform school in his native New York State. During a few absences from New England, Will earned a degree in only nine years at the College of Wooster in Ohio. After graduating in 1962, he taught high school English in northern New York, filling in summers as an Outward Bound instructor. From 1968 to 1972 Will directed the Dartmouth Outward Bound Center. From 1972 until his "retirement" in 2007, he was a building and remodeling contractor in Hanover. He's an adopted member of the Dartmouth Class of 1957. In 1981 he began writing a weekly column, "A Yankee Notebook," which appears in several New England newspapers. He's a commentator or host for Vermont Public Radio and both Vermont and New Hampshire Public Television. His annual readings of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol began in 1975 and continue unabated. He's published several audio recordings and nine books and received four Emmy nominations, and won one for his work as the long-running host of New Hampshire Public Television's award-winning show "Windows to the Wild". In 1973 Will founded the Geriatric Adventure Society, a group of outdoor enthusiasts whose members have skied the 200-mile Alaska Marathon, climbed in Alaska, the Andes, and Himalayas, bushwhacked on skis through northern New England, and paddled rivers north of the Arctic Circle. Fifteen pithy, humorous, and heartwarming autobiographical pieces describe either trips Willem Lange has taken to Alaska, France, Texas, and elsewhere or, in a metaphorical sense, the long journey of his own life. As always, embedded unobtrusively within his tales, are profound ruminations on life and death, love, nature, and God. I have noticed how much my joy in people has run as a bright thread through the whole fabric of my life, he explains. The stories in this collection are about some of those people who in the last fifty years have brightened or darkened but always enlarged my life. They are my constant companions on the luminous little brooks of memory. ", University Press of New England, 2002, 3<

2007, ISBN: 9781584651901

Paperback

Hanover: University Press of New England, 2002. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. Very good. ix, [3], 102, [6] pages. Inscribed and dated by the author on half-title. Willem … More...

Hanover: University Press of New England, 2002. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. Very good. ix, [3], 102, [6] pages. Inscribed and dated by the author on half-title. Willem Lange was born in 1935 and first came to New England to prep school in 1950 as an alternative to reform school in his native New York State. During a few absences from New England, Will earned a degree in only nine years at the College of Wooster in Ohio. After graduating in 1962, he taught high school English in northern New York, filling in summers as an Outward Bound instructor. From 1968 to 1972 Will directed the Dartmouth Outward Bound Center. From 1972 until his "retirement" in 2007, he was a building and remodeling contractor in Hanover. He's an adopted member of the Dartmouth Class of 1957. In 1981 he began writing a weekly column, "A Yankee Notebook," which appears in several New England newspapers. He's a commentator or host for Vermont Public Radio and both Vermont and New Hampshire Public Television. His annual readings of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol began in 1975 and continue unabated. He's published several audio recordings and nine books and received four Emmy nominations, and won one for his work as the long-running host of New Hampshire Public Television's award-winning show "Windows to the Wild". In 1973 Will founded the Geriatric Adventure Society, a group of outdoor enthusiasts whose members have skied the 200-mile Alaska Marathon, climbed in Alaska, the Andes, and Himalayas, bushwhacked on skis through northern New England, and paddled rivers north of the Arctic Circle. Fifteen pithy, humorous, and heartwarming autobiographical pieces describe either trips Willem Lange has taken to Alaska, France, Texas, and elsewhere or, in a metaphorical sense, the long journey of his own life. As always, embedded unobtrusively within his tales, are profound ruminations on life and death, love, nature, and God. I have noticed how much my joy in people has run as a bright thread through the whole fabric of my life, he explains. The stories in this collection are about some of those people who in the last fifty years have brightened or darkened but always enlarged my life. They are my constant companions on the luminous little brooks of memory. ", University Press of New England, 2002, 3<

ISBN: 9781584651901

University Press of New England. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text… More...

University Press of New England. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., University Press of New England, 2.5<