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London: Heinemann, 1958. Publishers original deep red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight sunning to top and base of spine. Dustwrapper: Unclipped, chipping to corners, rubbing to extremities, sunned spine, foxed rear panel, now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscriptions. Faint foxing to half and title page. 306pp. Pages clean, and bright in firm binding. A very good collectors copy. Ronnie Clarke, a pilot on an Australian airline, tells the story himself. When he learns that Johnny Pasco has crashed in an inaccessible part of Tasmania trying to fly help to a sick girl and is lying with a fractured skull, Ronnie decides to try and land a doctor there, despite the tricky flying conditions; for Johnny Pascoe at sixty is someone whom Ronnie admires, always has admired ever since he taught Ronnie to fly back in England in the Thirties. Here is not only a tremendous yarn about a flying rescue but also a fine portrait of the man to be rescued - Johnny Pascoe.. First UK Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.