Flying Lanes, Signed by William K. Vanderbilt
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[Signed] Vanderbilt, William K. Flying Lanes, Being the Journal of a Flight Around South America and Over the Andes. Privately Printed. 1938. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition—endpapers show discoloration, and jacket shows minor tears, mild chipping to the spine ends, and minor fraying. Book is inscribed, “To Sue Smith, With the compliments of the author William K. Vanderbilt, May 31, 1938.”
Intrepid explorer William K. Vanderbilt II (brother of Consuelo) put his fortune to interesting use in a series of sea and air adventures. This attractive book, with heavy paper and beautiful b & w photogravure plates, is the three-week expedition from Miami through the Caribbean to South America and back again via a private Sikorsky S-43 seaplane—the type of plane that Pan Am was then using for its famed international Clipper service. Air travel was then in its infancy, and the trip, which entailed hours over open water and a harrowing climb over the vertiginous Andes, was truly an adventure.
“There is a homey touch about the fact that this little bit of South America was given to the Dutch in 1667 in exchange for New York. … At the time of the exchange it was quite generally thought that the shrewd Dutchmen had beaten the English on the deal.”
--William K. Vanderbilt
Intrepid explorer William K. Vanderbilt II (brother of Consuelo) put his fortune to interesting use in a series of sea and air adventures. This attractive book, with heavy paper and beautiful b & w photogravure plates, is the three-week expedition from Miami through the Caribbean to South America and back again via a private Sikorsky S-43 seaplane—the type of plane that Pan Am was then using for its famed international Clipper service. Air travel was then in its infancy, and the trip, which entailed hours over open water and a harrowing climb over the vertiginous Andes, was truly an adventure.
“There is a homey touch about the fact that this little bit of South America was given to the Dutch in 1667 in exchange for New York. … At the time of the exchange it was quite generally thought that the shrewd Dutchmen had beaten the English on the deal.”
--William K. Vanderbilt
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