The copper-bottomed classic from a memorable and courageous pilot.
Ernest K Gann graduated from Culver Military Academy (now Culver Academies) in 1930. He flew for American Airlines and then the US Army during World War II. He lived in Washington and wrote and published prolifically.
"Chicago Sunday Tribune"This purely wonderful autobiographical
volume is the best thing on flying and the meaning of flying that
we have had since Antoine de Saint-Exupe ry took us aloft on his
winged prose in the late 1930s and early 1940s....It is a splendid
and many-faceted personal memoir that is not only one man's story
but the story, in essence, of all men who fly.
"New York Times Book Review"Few writers have ever drawn their
readers so intimately into the shielded sanctum of the cockpit, and
it is here that Mr. Gann is truly the artist.
"Saturday Review"This fascinating, well-told autobiography is a
complete refutation of the comfortable cliche that "man is master
of his fate." As far as pilots are concerned, fate (or death) is a
hunter who is constantly in pursuit of them....There is nothing
depressing about "Fate Is the Hunter." There is tension and
suspense in it but there is great humor too. Happily, Gann never
gets too technical for the layman to understand.
"The New Yorker"This book is an episodic log of some of the more
memorable of [the author's] nearly ten thousand hours aloft in
peace and (as a member of the Air Transport Command) in war. It is
also an attempt to define by example his belief in the phenomenon
of luck -- that "the pattern of anyone fate is only partly
contrived by the individual."
Cornelius Ryanauthor of "A Bridge Too Far" and "The Longest DayFate
Is the Hunter" is partly autobiographical, partly a chronicle of
some of the most memorable and courageous pilots the reader will
ever encounter in print; and always this book is about the workings
of fate....The book is studded with characters equally as memorable
as the dramas they act out.
V.S. Pritchett"New Statesman"Mr. Gann is a writer saturated in his
subject; he has the skill to make every instant sharp and important
and we catch the fever to know that documentary writing does not
often invite.
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