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The
Big Dipper Route
A new paperback book by Danny Bereza
Out now!
About
the Book
The
Big Dipper Route is available now in paperback. Click
here to order
The Big
Dipper Route
Copyright
2005 © Danny Bereza
Cover and Illustrations Copyright
2005 © Roy
Mercer
Approx 200 pages
ISBN 0-9737105-0-0
Published in Canada by Solaster Publishing 556 Monarch
Drive, Courtenay, BC Canada V9N 8R7
Printed and bound in Canada by Blitzprint Inc. #3 -
1235 64 Ave SE Calgary, AB Canada T2H 2J7
"Northern
Aviation has always been gripping - particularly prior
to "GPS" and the like - this one spells it out beautifully
and with flair"
Ray
Berube, retired C46/DC4 pilot, Northern Operations
"...It
reminded me of Ernie Gann's stories."
(Fate is the Hunter, Island in the Sky).
Captain John Meyers, United Airlines (Retired)
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In
The Big Dipper Route Danny Bereza recounts
some of the amusing, frightening, life-threatening
and exhilarating things that happened to him during
his early career as a passenger plane pilot during
the pioneering days of Arctic flying. Getting
lost, running out of fuel, helping a dying man,
being the co-pilot during a plane crash and taking
part in one of the most bizarre party antics of
all time are just some of the memorable and at
times inspiring events he writes about.
One
of the most compelling passages in the book details
his increasingly hopeless attempts to start a
frozen plane engine in minus 40 degree temperatures.
Alone and frustrated he struggles against the
killing cold and the despair of his desperate
situation, when he is confronted by a spirit of
the white wilderness in the form of an arctic
fox. The encounter gives him renewed hope and
determination. Written to both thrill and delight,
this book deserves to become a classic of flying
tales.
Lawrence
Dyer, author of A
Cottage on the Moss
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Read
a review of The Big Dipper Route
Illustrations
for the book by Roy Mercer |
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So
what do you do if you're flying through fog over
an icy ocean, the nearest land is 200 miles away and
your fuel gauges are hovering near zero?
At
this site you can find out more about the book,
learn about the author,
read an extract,
see photos and
a map of where the events
of the story take place, as well as order
your copy!
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