{"product_id":"the-flying-boat-that-fell-to-earth-9780993291166","title":"The Flying Boat That Fell to Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReissue with new title and afterword of travel book previously published by Penguin in 1999 as Corsairville, about the Imperial Airways flying boats in Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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","brand":"Safe Haven Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885167685975,"sku":"9780993291166","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780993291166.jpg?v=1722535216","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-flying-boat-that-fell-to-earth-9780993291166","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}