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Take flight : incredible stories of Australian women who reach for the sky
Mexted, Kathy2024
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Helicopter pilot Alida Soemawinata ascends over Kata Tjua. Paramotor pilot Sacha Dench follows migrating swans from the Arctic tundra to the English countryside. Birdwoman Stef Walter wing walks. Hot air balloonist Donna Tasker glides over Bristol, Myanmar and much of Australia. Gomeroi astrophysicist Krystal De Napoli studies the Seven Sisters in the dark night sky. Aerobatic pilot Emma McDonald debuts her solo routine at an airshow high above the glittering Gold Coast. In Take Flight, author and pilot Kathy Mexted celebrates the determination, skill and expertise of ten women who have beaten the odds to find success and joy in our skies.
Main title:
Author:
Mexted, Kathy, author
Imprint:
Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
243 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781742237619 (paperback)
Dewey class:
629.13092629.13
Language:
English
BRN:
2689498