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Cargando... Bert Hinkler: The Most Daring Man in the Worldpor Grantlee Kieza
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The thrilling life of Bert Hinkler, Bundaberg boy, who grew up to become a pioneer of aviation, Mussolini's favourite pilot, dubbed 'the most daring man in the world' by adoring crowds who turned out to see him fly. Grantlee Kieza tells the thrilling story of Bert's life and with it the bigger story of how the world was changed forever by men like Hinkler. Fast paced and revealing, this is an overdue, full-blooded biography about one of Australia's most astonishing sons. He's all but been lost from history but once upon a time, Bert Hinkler, a small, unprepossessing man from Bundaberg was feted as one of the most daring aviators in the world. Mussolini's favourite pilot, Hinkler was an adventurer who along with early pioneers flew single handed across countries, continents and oceans-often with nothing more than a lunchbox and the page of an atlas to guide him. Whether as an aerial showman or as a World War I fighter pilot, Hinkler's exploits thrilled the world, drawing massive crowds, and in his time he enjoyed the fame and adulation of his peers like Charles Kingsford Smith and Amelia Earhart. But behind the headlines was a more private-and more complex-man, who juggled two relationships with two different women on two continents. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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He never made the money from his fame that Lindbergh did from his as Hinkler was a modest, quiet man who preferred to operate behind the scenes. He frequently did not tell his family or friends where he was headed when he took off on these extraordinary flights. On his last flight to Australia, this led to rescuers searching in the wrong places because he had not left a flight plan or even a note as to where he was going.
As with his trips, Hinkler was secretive about his personal life. He never legally married the woman whom he called his wife and when he did a completely different woman, he still led the public to believe that his common-in-law wife was his real spouse.
The author who is Australian gives the reader a view of life in Australia in the early part of the Twentieth Century. Hinkler as teenager is fascinated by flight and builds a glider in his back yard that actually flew achieving what men in America & Europe were trying to do but frequently killing themselves. He eventually went to England to work in the aviation industry as a mechanic finally getting his wish to be a pilot in WW I. It is after the war that he began planning his record flights.
The author has managed to gather immense detail about the life of Hinkler but I found his tendency to include the though processes of the flier on his flights as if Hinkler had written them down to be turning the biography into fiction. He even does this on the last flight that killed Hinkler when Hinkler would have been in no condition to record anything. It is still a pleasurable read about a truly fascinating man. (