ALONE OVER THE TASMAN SEA is a story of Sir Francis Chichester's 1931 flight from New Zealand to Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island and on to Sidney in a birdcage airplane, the wood and fiber de Havilland Moth.
In the 1930's, flight was still in its dangerous infancy. Chichester's trip, in which he had to find pin-speck islands in a remote and uncharted sea, tested not only his courage, resolution and stamina.
"For the things of which Francis Chichester writes are the things of man's old quest and spirit: danger and adventure and achievement, the sun and the wind, the many-launching waves and the steady thunder of seas on island beaches." (Publisher's Source)
