Why read Fate is the Hunter?

Book cover of Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir

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Ernest K. Gann’s classic pilot's memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviation. “Few writers have ever drawn readers so intimately into the shielded sanctum of the cockpit, and it is hear that Mr. Gann is truly the artist” (The New York Times…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Fate is the Hunter as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Tracey Curtis-Taylor

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First published in 1961, this memoir may be the best book ever written about aviation by someone who was both a pilot and a terrific writer.

I took the liberty of using this title as the heading for one of the chapters in my own book as a tribute to Gann. His visceral accounts of flying the early airliners in America during the 1930s in the burgeoning years of commercial aviation are literally heart-stopping.

We take so much for granted in this modern age of airline flying but this wonderful book will forever change your perspective of the risks and…

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