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Book SynopsisReissue with new title and afterword of travel book previously published by Penguin in 1999 as Corsairville, about the Imperial Airways flying boats in Africa.
Trade Review'A fascinating and strangely inspiring story' William Boyd; 'Beautifully told' Jeremy Clarkson; `Part history, part travelogue, part essay, it is a hybrid like the machines it celebrates, and like them, it gets triumphantly airborne. . . Some of the best reflective writing about nostalgia that I have ever read’ Francis Spufford, Evening Standard; `The extraordinary story of the Corsair is a good yarn, and yarns are as hard to come by in commercial flying these days as leather upholstery and hulls rubbed with beeswax’ The Times; `A proper piece of literature, beautifully written and grabbing one’s attention from the first lines … The description of people and places is the sort of thing you once would have expected from writers like Norman Lewis and Eric Newby - a wonderful read in its own right and journalism of the highest standard’ Pilot magazine
