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WHAT...NO LANDING FIELD? ADVENTURES OF AN ALASKAN SEAPLANE PILOT

by Robert E. Ellis; Margaret R. Ellis; Elizabeth Richardson

Published by E.S. Richardson. Circa. 1998

Very good condition. Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos. Edited by Richardson.

SIGNED by Mike Ellis (author's son), with dedication to prelim page. Some browning and marks to covers.

ISBN: 0966039610
Stock no. 2139596

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Contents

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Preview for Adventure
  • Early Days
  • That Was the Way it Was
  • A Short History
  • Airmail Service in the Thirties
  • Taku Advenutre
  • First Trip to Bristol Bay, 1930
  • How to Survive in the Wilderness Without Really Trying
  • Knowledge, Skill, Courage
  • The Mattern Relief Expedition
  • Sidelights on the Relief of the Mattern Relief Expedition
  • The Nome Fire
  • West Coast Brevities
  • The War Years
  • Who Needs a Starter?
  • Home For Christmas
  • Return to Kodiak, January 1944
  • Roosevelt Comes to Kodiak
  • Post-War Years
  • Peg's Scrapbook
  • Postscript
  • Index

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