Flight of Passage - Rinker Buck

Category: Other
Language: English
Keywords: Buck Flight Passage Rinker
Written by Rinker Buck
Read by Rinker Buck
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

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In 1966, Rinker and Kernahan Buck, 15 and 17, bought a dilapidated Piper Cub for $300, rebuilt it in their barn, and then took off for California, making headlines across the country as “the youngest aviators ever to fly America coast-to-coast.” Buck movingly recreates the pre-Vietnam America of cheap strip motels and dusty landing strips, the perilous crossing of the Rockies and the Arizona deserts in a fragile plane without a radio, narrating a classic tale of the Sixties. But Flight of Passage is also a timeless ode to fathers and sons, evoking the rites of coming of age in a family driven both by demons and big dreams. This BDD Audiobook is read by the author–a man whom critics are already calling “a virtuoso storyteller in a very American vein.”