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Slipstream by Roger McDonald

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June 1982, no. 41

Slipstream by Roger McDonald

University of Queensland Press, 388 pp

Slipstream by Roger McDonald

by
June 1982, no. 41

Aviation was a myth still in the making to my generation of Australian children. We cricked our necks watching a patch of sky for Amy Johnson’s arrival and, indeed, whenever an aeroplane engine was heard aloft, as if the watching itself was a necessary act of will, or prayer, to ensure the safety of those magnificent men and women whose photographs showed them always ear-muffed, be-goggled and leather-jacketed, smiling and jauntily waving thumbs up to us their earthbound worshippers.

Nancy Keesing reviews 'Slipstream' by Roger McDonald

Slipstream

by Roger McDonald

University of Queensland Press, 388 pp

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