Publisher's Synopsis
Book Excerpt: exactly as it stands, beginning at page three of theblood-soaked note-book: "Nevertheless, when I dined at Rheims with Coselli and GustavRaymond I found that neither of them was aware of any particulardanger in the higher layers of the atmosphere. I did not actuallysay what was in my thoughts, but I got so near to it that if theyhad any corresponding idea they could not have failed to expressit. But then they are two empty, vainglorious fellows with nothought beyond seeing their silly names in the newspaper. It isinteresting to note that neither of them had ever been much beyondthe twenty-thousand-foot level. Of course, men have been higherthan this both in balloons and in the ascent of mountains. Itmust be well above that point that the aeroplane enters the dangerzone--always presuming that my premonitions are correct."Aeroplaning has been with us now for more than twenty years, and one might well ask: Why should this peril be only revealingitself in our day? The answer is obvious.Read Mo
