Frank Barr: Alaskan Pioneer Bush Pilot and One-Man Airline - Paperback
by Dermot Cole
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Availability:In StockContributor:Dermot Cole, Frank Barr (As Told by)Publish date:1999-09-01Pages:132
Language:EnglishPublisher:Graphic Arts BooksISBN-13:9780882405254ISBN-10:088240525XUPC:9780882405254Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Adventurers & ExplorersSize:8.48 x 5.50 x 0.28 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCDG36RFD3
Frank Barr: Alaskan Pioneer Bush Pilot and One-Man Airline
Frank Barr was one of the most interesting of the early aviation pioneers in Alaska. At age 28, the former calvalryman, parachute jumper and test pilot, signed on to a Yukon gold expedition in 1932 as a back up pilot. After the expedition failed to find enough gold, Frank Barr stayed in the north country and spent the rest of his career as a bush pilot. He flew every early plane from the Jenny to...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Graphic Arts BooksISBN-13:9780882405254ISBN-10:088240525XUPC:9780882405254Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Adventurers & ExplorersSize:8.48 x 5.50 x 0.28 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCDG36RFD3
Dermot Cole has been writing about Alaska for over a quarter of a century as a newspaper columnist in Fairbanks, Alaska. He interviewed Frank Barr after Frank retired, and used Barr's log books, scrapbooks, and information from Barr's contemporaries to write this compelling biography of one of Alaska's pioneer bush pilots.
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