TABLE OF CONTENTS
About the Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1 Flight to
Adventure
Chapter 2 Early
Life
Chapter 3 First
Adventure
Chapter 4 Welcome to
Alaska
Chapter 5 College and the
Military
Chapter 6 Going to
Work
Chapter 7 To the Forbidden Roof of the
World
Chapter 8 With the Dalai Lama in
Lhasa
Chapter 9 Life and Death on the Tibetan
Trail
Chapter 10 Two Lifetime Passions: Tay and
Flying
Chapter 11 Around the
World
Chapter 12 Welcome to
Africa
Chapter 13 The Rwenzori Mountains, the Congo, and Kenya
Chapter 14 Into the
Desert
Chapter 15 With the Nomads
Chapter 16 North to
Alaska
Chapter 17
Earthquake
Chapter 18 Flying
Alaska
Chapter 19 Around the World a New
Way
Chapter 20 Politics and
Conservation
Chapter 21
Skiing
Chapter 22 Mount McKinley Flight
Adventures
Chapter 23 Flying Another
Soloist
Chapter 24 To Russia with
Love
Chapter 25 Flying into the
Sunset
Sources
Index
Lowell Thomas Jr. has led a life of adventure, traveling around the world. Since 1960 he has been based in Anchorage, Alaska, where he lives with his wife, Tay, of more than sixty-three years. An author, filmmaker, and devoted small-plane pilot for about sixty-five years, and one who has approximately 1.2 million miles of flight time at the controls on his resume, Thomas is a passionate conservationist and has been honored for his work in preserving the Alaska wilderness. Lew Freedman is a longtime journalist and former sports editor of the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska, where he lived for seventeen years. The author of nearly sixty books, Freedman has won more than 250 journalism awards. He and his wife, Debra, live in Indiana.
"The result of conversations between Lowell, Tay and Lew is the
book, LOWELL THOMAS JR. FLIGHT TO ADVENTURE: ALASKA AND BEYOND. The
title rings with the same wide-eyed excitement as many of the
previous books written by Lowell and Tay since they were married in
1950. The pages inside reveal the extraordinary life Lowell, Jr.
has led and the important role Tay has played as his partner in
adventure." —Anthony Wellman, 2014 edition of The Dutch Treat Club
Annual Book
“. . . a high-spirited autobiography of Lowell Thomas Jr. (b.1923),
reporter, bush pilot, fifth Lieutenant Governor of Alaska,
filmmaker, and conservationist devoted to preserving Alaska's
beautiful wilderness. With the assistance of award-winning
journalist Lew Freedman, Thomas speaks of climbing an Alaskan
mountain at age sixteen, flying around the world on his honeymoon,
meeting the fourteen-year-old Dalai Lama, and much more. His
lifetime of accomplishments, exploration, and appreciation for
nature's beauty make for a thoroughly engaging and inspirational
true story, highly recommended.” —James A. Cox, Midwest Book
Review
“Lowell Thomas Jr. has lived a life of exploration and adventure
ranging from the heart of Africa to Alaska's highest peaks. His
powerfully written and evocative reminiscences provide a reading
experience that is to be relished from start to finish.” —Colleen
Mondor, author, The Map of My Dead Pilots
“Lowell’s adventures are an inspiration for all ages. He proves
that a person can do anything they make up their mind to do and be
successful at it.”—Shari Hart, Executive Director, Alaska Aviation
Museum
"It's fascinating to be able to open up a window of time—and that's
what this book does—it allows us to see that we stand on the
shoulders of those that have gone before."-Donna Seebo, Talk Show
Host'The Donna Seebo Show'
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