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"Chicago Sunday Tribune" This purely wonderful autobiographical volume is the best thing on flying and the meaning of flying that we have had since Antoine de Saint-Exupery took us aloft on his winged prose in the late 1930s and early 1940s....It is a splendid and many-faceted personal memoir that is not only one man's story but the story, in essence, of all men who fly.
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The copper-bottomed classic from a memorable and courageous pilot.
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IN THE beginning many of us were scientific barbarians. Read the first page
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book chronicles Gann's career as a "high timer," an airline pilot with more than 10,000 hours in his log book. If you are a fan of the propeller era of air transport, (DC-2/DC-3/DC-4) you will find his accounts of life on the flight deck fascinating. Additionally, private pilots may learn useful tips for flying in foul weather.
32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
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About a hundred years ago I walked into a bookshop in a small English town and found a hardback copy of "Fate". It was gathering dust on a high shelf - something that had been ordered and never collected the lady bookseller said. That was at the beginning of my flying career. I tried, and nearly succeeded in tracing EKG's footsteps around the globe. True the equipment was a bit more modern and we had inertial nav over astro nav, even so it was all very memorable - especially when I got to make a pencilled notation on the page of that book indicating the date I'd been there. The career has ended now, and I more or less resemble that battered hardback copy that resided at the bottom of my flight bag for nearly 17,000 flight hours. So, thanks for a story of flight and flying men that will never be beaten, EKG. My privilege to have shared the same sky. Any co-pilot slots available at our equivalent of "Fiddlers Green", I'll be along shortly.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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I have read and re-read "Fate is the Hunter" so many times that the pages are loose and falling out. You are not just reading the best aviation book of all time, you are in the cockpit behind the master himself, as he savors the illicit thrill of a zero-zero takeoff from a fog bound Presque Isle airport in a C-47 during the war, taking a load of steel girders to Goose Bay. Just after takeoff, the girders break loose and slide to the rear of the aircraft, which starts a climb so steep that the plane is shuddering in a stall. As Gann and his co-pilot are pushing the control column forward as hard as they can with their feet a crewmember is trying to move the girders back up the near vertical floor.
Gann's writing so inspired me that I wanted to become an airline pilot, but my flying ability was just slightly better than Bixby, his inept co-pilot that almost collided with the Taj Mahal, another fascinating story later on in the book. I became a dispatcher instead, an occupation I truly loved, which was also inspired by Gann's interaction with the dispatchers of his line.
I wrote Ernest Gann at his home in Friday Harbor, Washington and tried to convey just how much I enjoyed "Fate is the Hunter" and what an impact it made on my life. I received short note from him. It was very gracious and humble, and is one of my greatest treasures.
I also highly recommend "Hostage to Fortune", a chronology of Gann's incredible life from a rebellious young man that could never follow his father into business and be chained to an office, through a lifetime of adventure, to his retirement on Red Mill Farm, on an island in the Pacific northwest.
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Fate Is The Hunter
Simply the best. For those interested or passionate in aviation this book describes the science and emotion of the Flyer in pre war through to post war America. Read more
Published 5 days ago by kenneth
Inspiring
I first read this when I was at school (circa 1967) and have re read it over the years. It never fails to impress me. Read more
Published 2 months ago by alvil
EXCELLENT
People say that this is the best aviation book every written. I don't know about that as I haven't read all of them. Read more
Published 3 months ago by A. Taylor
Make it this
If ever you read a book about aviation................make it this one, gripping, just gripping, one hell of a pilot. Read more
Published 4 months ago by P. J. Washington
A fantastic read.
This is a superb book for anyone remotely interested in aviation. In fact i would recommend this book to those who would not normally read aviation books. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mark Hutton
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Ernest Gann's book "Fate is the Hunter" is one of the best accounts on general, early and wartime commercial aviation around. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Bryan
Increable experience
A must have book for anyone interested in the early history aviation. It tells the experiences of a pilot from the initial accident littered days of commercial flying in 1930s... Read more
Published 13 months ago by David J. Ruck
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Really enjoyed this book of Ernest Gann,for anyone interested in flying,or aviation generally this is an excellent book to get the feel of what it was like to fly in the early... Read more
Published 15 months ago by moose
Wonderful, wonderful book
I have probably read over a thousand books in my time and this one is still my favourite. Like many of the other authors here, I have read it many, many times and enjoy every... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mr. H. Thomas
Breathtaking, evocative, and very affecting.
Breathtaking and very affecting. Ernest K Gann was a great writer. I never expected this subject to be so adventurous or such compelling reading. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Paul Harris
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