Flying Cold: The Adventures of Russel Merrill, Pioneer Alaskan Aviator

MacLean, Robert Merrill;Rossiter, Sean

ISBN 10: 094539733X / ISBN 13: 9780945397335

Published by Epicenter Press, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., 1994

About this Item

First printing. Signed by author on ffep. Rubbing, scuffing, and edgewear to glossy wraps with light peeling and creasing to tips of fore edges. Light fanning to front fore edge. Light soiling to text edges with silver fish damage to inside front and back wrap. Otherwise tight, clean, unmarked interior. Shipping confirmed. Seller Inventory # 008146

Bibliographic Details

Title: Flying Cold: The Adventures of Russel ...

Publisher: Epicenter Press, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

[Merrill, Russel]. MacLean, Robert Merrill. and Rossiter, Sean. Flying Cold - The Adventures of Russel Merrill - Pioneer Alaskan Aviator. First printing. Fairbanks & Seattle, Epicenter Press, 1994. 25.5 cm x 20.5 cm. XIV, 178 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: Foreword to Thyra Merrill's 1930 Manuscript, The Takeoff, North To Alaska - 1925, Bridging Troubled Waters, Into the Future - 1926, Northern Brotherhood of the Air, On the Artic Circle, Blazing Air Trails, Stranded in the Artic, and Having Pioneered. Illustrated throughout in black and white.

From the Back Cover:

Trained as a pilot during World War I, Russel Merrill was determined to spend his life flying. His love of flight lured him from Oregon to Alaska, the far frontier of aviation, where Merrill piloted the first airplanes to fly into Petersburg, Wrangell, Kodiak, and Anchorage. He was an inventive aviator who oce declared he would rather eat beans in Alaska than live in comfort elsewhere. "Flying over uncharted mountain ranges, large bodies fo water, and vast expanses of tundra, Russel Merrill was teh space astronaut of his day... He brought aviation to Anchorage the same year Charles Lindberg flew the Atlantic." - Ted Spencer, Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum. Flying Cold chronicles Merrill's daring 750-mile journey across the Gulf of Alaska in a flying boat with a single small motor, his first rescue mission by air, crash-landings, and strandings. in 1928, Merrill nearly died after being forced down in the Arctic while helping fly a Fox Film Expedition crew to Barrow in northern Alaska, showing up there three weeks later, half dead, but still carrying a cup of rice he had saved for an "emergency."