EASTON, Md., March 6, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Nothing can be more exciting than flying an airplane high in the sky with the aerial view of the country in full sight. For author Barbara L. Feader, Australian flying was the true seat-of-the-pants experience. The greatest trip began on August 22, 1978, when she took off on what is now remembered as the ultimate flying experience. This is the story that readers will marvel at as Xlibris proudly presents the compelling new book Self-Flying the Australian Outback and Island Hopping Down The Great Barrier Reef by Barbara Feader.
In this book, Feader talks about the amazing experience of flying over vast portions of Australia with only a few navigational aids and a single engine for fifteen days. During the plane safari, she flew with five other planes over the eastern half of Australia from Melbourne (Province of Victoria), going west across to Ayers Rock (Northern Australia), northeast to the Gulf of Carpenteria (Province of Queensland), east to Cairns on the Pacific Coast, then south towards the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea. The author and her companions later re-entered the mainland at Mackay where they flew southeast across the Province of New South Wales and by the time they arrived at Melbourne, their safari ended with a grand total distance of almost four thousand miles.
Along the way, the author reveals interesting moments, such as what it was like landing on islands down the Great Barrier Reef, encountering vast wilderness in the Australian Outback, reaching landmarks in central Australia that most people never get the chance to visit, and the experience of landing at sheep stations where the Royal Flying Doctors land to take care of people who were sick and wounded in remote areas.
Self-Flying the Australian Outback and Island Hopping Down The Great Barrier Reef is an exciting travel and adventure book that brings to readers the amazing experience of self-flying as well as discovering great landmarks. Not only will it amaze travel enthusiasts and general readers, it will also magnetize the attention of pilots and aviation fanatics, and even encourage them to travel beyond their boundaries and discover the unknown. Feader herself has flown planes all over North America, parts of Mexico, Australia, and even in ten countries in South and East Africa, which adds great credibility to the book. Fly high today by getting a copy of Self-Flying the Australian Outback and Island Hopping Down The Great Barrier Reef online at Xlibris.com and at major bookstores and libraries nationwide!
About the Author
Not allowed to attend school until age twelve, I was placed in sixth grade because I could read. Failing to get the basics in English, grammar, arithmetic, and other subjects, I quit school since I could not do my homework. I married a local farm boy and had two children by age twenty. A married woman needed approval from the state of Alabama to go to school, which I got when my second child started school. But it wasn't until age forty-eight that I followed my real calling and became a commercial instrument-rated airplane pilot.
Self-Flying the Australian Outback * by Barbara L. Feader
and Island Hopping Down the Great Barrier Reef
Publication Date: December 21, 2005
Trade Paperback; $20.99; 135 pages; 1-59926-480-3 *
Cloth Hardback; $30.99; 135 pages; 1-59926-481-1
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