Ure Smith, Sydney, 1979. Crease across bottom right of front cover with peeling, wear to cover and spine, foxing at page edges and on endpapers, small stain at top and bottom edge of back cover.

Within his brief life-span of 40 years, Bert Hinkler became one of the world's greatest air pioneers, renowned for his abilities as a pilot and navigator, and for his personal courage and modest and pleasant personality. Roy MacKenzie's biography gives a vivid and sympathetic acount of how this barely educated country boy battled from his early youth to realize a consuming ambition to become a flyer and to work with aircraft and airman.