# Absolute Altitude

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- Book: [Absolute Altitude](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-buckley/absolute-altitude) ([Absolute Altitude.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-buckley/absolute-altitude.md))
- Authors: [Martin Buckley](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-buckley)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-064-5
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2014-11-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In this exciting and unusual travel book, Martin Buckley journeys through many places, from Benbecula to Rarotonga, from Sudan to New Zealand, from Corsica to Tucson, Arizona - but the country he explores is a romantic and dangerous place that seduces all who travel there - the sky. Three years ago, Martin Buckley gained a pilot's licence, and set off to 'hitch-hike' by plane around the world. His encounters with a range of sometimes eccentric and always obsessive pilots led to aid flights through war zones in a UN Cessna, aerobatics in a jet fighter, chasing goats across snowy mountains by helicopter and touching the edge of the stratosphere in a Learjet. The result is a wholly original travel book, free-spirited and often very funny, weaving a bird's-eye view of aviation's peculiar history into the narrative and offering intimate insights into the passion and perils of the pilot's seat.