Ernest K. Gann
Birth date: October 13, 1910
Died: December 19, 1991
Ernest K. Gann's Books
Ernest K. Gann, in his day, was one of those aviators with a gift for conveying to the general reader the thrills and perils of flying. And in "BLAZE OF NOON", he succeeds brilliantly. The story begins in September 1925 with the 4 McDonald brothers (Roland, Keith, Tad, and Colin) demonstrating their...
This novel ("Gentlemen of Adventure") encapsulates the lives of 3 people -- 2 of them pioneer U.S. aviators who flew in World War I; the third the woman both men love -- from the early years of aviation, through the era between the wars, and on into the advent of the Jet Age. Gann has an unerring wa...
Ernest Gann had a love affair with the sky; he was also infatuated with the sea. The Albatross was a former Dutch training vessel that required a crew of several hardy young windjammers. Her beam was twenty feet, and from stem to stem her length was either 117 feet (jibboom to stem) or 84 feet (wate...
A very, very long time since I read this book. (When I was 17 or so. As I said, very, very long time ago ;-)It was one of the first combat aviation books I have ever read. And as far as I remember - if my dwindling memory serves me well - it did actually get to me.
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