THE LAST OF THE BUSH PILOTS by Helmericks, Harmon - 1974

New York: Ballantine Books, 1974. (xiv) 305 pp. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the front hinge and spine; small chip from the lower left of the back cover. Illustrated with a map and with black and white plates. The Contents are: Preface; A Day's Work; Early Days: Outposts and Trading Posts; Landing Fields Are Where You Find - or Make - Them; The Wien Brothers; Reading Water; Trading-post Hoppers; Jack of all Trades and Master of Most; Weather Experiences; The Machines Themselves; The Bush Pilot as a Hunting and Fishing Guide; Strange Flight; The Trappers' Taxi; Barrow and Points South; The Wireless, Chart and Beam; Sam White; Gas-box-wire Mechanics; The Missionary Pilot; The Close Ones; Famous Exploits; Kisik, the Pilot's Friend; Bush Pilots as Industrial Guides; It Looked Like a Clover Field to Me; and Balance Sheet, or, No Way to Get Rich.. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good.