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Fate Is the Hunter | 
 enlarge | Author: Ernest K. Gann
Publisher: Pocket Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 26715
Media: Paperback
Edition: Touchstone Ed
Pages: 390
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0671636030
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671636036
ASIN: 0671636030
Publication Date: July 1, 1986
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 Interesting, but the prose is a bit flowery and over-stuffed August 15, 2005
Ian Scott (Sweden)
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
Its an interesting book but not the easiest to read because the author is prone to over-elaborate, flowery discriptions and philosophising every few paragraphs. This slows things down and makes it all a bit like wading through treacle. You really want to hear what he's got to say but wish he'd get to the point a bit quicker.
ELEGANT February 13, 2001
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
"Fate is the Hunter" is one of those stories that seems to be have been around as long as flight itself. Gann has that way of bestowing magical qualities on ordinary flying men that has never been beaten. A contemporary piece of fiction that measures up well to "Fate" is John Templeton Smith's "White Lie" - like "Fate" one of those books that is a 'keeper'.
AN UNFORGETTABLE MASTERPIECE November 18, 2000
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
About a hundred years ago I walked into a bookshop in a small English town and found a hardback copy of "Fate". It was gathering dust on a high shelf - something that had been ordered and never collected the lady bookseller said. That was at the beginning of my flying career. I tried, and nearly succeeded in tracing EKG's footsteps around the globe. True the equipment was a bit more modern and we had inertial nav over astro nav, even so it was all very memorable - especially when I got to make a pencilled notation on the page of that book indicating the date I'd been there. The career has ended now, and I more or less resemble that battered hardback copy that resided at the bottom of my flight bag for nearly 17,000 flight hours. So, thanks for a story of flight and flying men that will never be beaten, EKG. My privilege to have shared the same sky. Any co-pilot slots available at our equivalent of "Fiddlers Green", I'll be along shortly.
A fantastic story of an airline pilot June 26, 1999
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved the book when I read it back in 1971 when I was in the airforce in Alaska. A year or so later I saw a movie on television by the same name. "Fate Is The Hunter" I would like to find this movie if it is around somewhere on video. If anyone can help please send me an email at jagwlee@cs.com
Captures the True Spirit of flying for the airlines June 25, 1999
This book truly captures the emotions of a pilot and what it was like to fly for the flegling airline industry 60 years ago. Mr. Gann also chronicals the start of M.A.T.S. (military air transport service) of WW II. Even though it was written in the time frame of the 30's and 40's it all holds true in todays flying. A must read for any pilot interested in the history of the industry
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