Bird
Autor Tracey Curtis-Tayloren Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 mar 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1915306175
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 139 x 221 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Mirror Books
Descriere
"Every adventure has a backstory of passion, challenges, spirit, tenacity and frustrations. The story of Tracey's life is an exhilarating and at times breathless ride as she brilliantly shares the startling journey that led her to take flight and soar around the world. She has overcome adversity and numerous barriers along the way. Bird gives an intimate and compelling insight of life seen through the eyes of this inspirational aviator." - Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Tracey Curtis-Taylor is renowned as one of Britain’s foremost female adventurers – but she had to fight against the odds to make her dreams come true.
Paying homage to two historic aviators, Curtis-Taylor made headlines all over the world with three epic flights in a 1942 Boeing Stearman biplane, from Cape Town to Goodwood, Farnborough to Australia, and across the USA.
But it didn’t come easy. With searing honesty and breathtaking detail, Bird tells the remarkable personal story of how she overcame extreme adversity to complete her three remarkable journeys.
From cheating death twice and saving her crew from a firing squad to overcoming a bitter campaign waged by a male-dominated aviation industry; from her relationship with a mysterious French spy to the shocking secret that drove her family apart.
This is the action-packed, inspirational story of a woman who fulfilled her high-flying ambitions, was brought crashing down to earth in more ways than one, yet still survived to tell the tale.