Beyond the Blue Horizon
In Beyond The Blue Horizon, Alexander Frater reveals and relives the romance and breathtaking excitement of the legendary Imperial Airways Eastbound Empire service-the world's longest and most adventurous scheduled air route.
Written with an infectious passion, this is an extraordinarily original and genre-defining piece of travel writing by one of the world's most highly respected travel correspondents.
"Whether being mown down by stampeding Baghdad-bound passengers in Cairo airport; battling with Indian Airline staff (and failing) to reconfirm six vital going-on flights from Delhi; being lured unwittingly into a souvenir shop selling pornographic wood carvings in Lombok; or hitting tropical Cyclone Ferdinand in a 748 en route from Sumba to Bali, Frater rises above it all with humour, style and a wonderfully sharp eye." The Evening Standard
430 pages, 6 editions
English edition · First published 1986 by Pan Macmillan UK · ISBN 9781743292341
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Editions
6 editions
English
- Beyond the Blue Horizon · Pan Macmillan UK · 2005 · ISBN 9781743292341 This page
- Beyond the Blue Horizon: On the Track of Imperial Airways · Picador · 2011 · ISBN 9780330542289
- Beyond the Blue Horizon: On the Track of Imperial Airways · Picador · 2005 · ISBN 9780330433129
- Beyond the Blue Horizon: On the Track of Imperial Airways · Penguin · 1987 · ISBN 9780140100655
- Beyond the Blue Horizon: On the Track of Imperial Airways · Scribner · 1987 · ISBN 9780684188379
- Beyond the Blue Horizon: On the Track of Imperial Airways · Heinemann · 1986 · ISBN 9780434270804
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