The best-selling author of Flight of the Intruder and Under Siege chronicles the three months he spent exploring the U.S. from the cockpit of a 1942 Stearman vintage biplane. Reprint.
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San Diego Union-Tribune A marvelous, once-in-a-lifetime adventure.
Denver Post Coonts shares the thrill of his dream with his readers...and he weaves a delightful tapestry that shows us what our country really looks like...Like a balladeer of old, Coonts sings us a song of the awesome power of nature and the beauty of the country. We meet the friendly folk who run small-town airports and that peculiar breed of aviators who fly lovingly restored aeroplanes...Coonts' odyssey...thrills.
New York Daily News Down to earth, above it all....The Cannibal Queen is a bird's eye view of small-town America, a detailed, upbeat journal with lots of airport shop-talk, and meditations on the joy of flight and solitude, and a lament for the despoiling of the environment.
San Diego Union-Tribune What a pleasure to encounter a writer as eloquent about a consuming passion as Stephen Coonts is about aviation....None of his old fans will be disappointed, and he is sure to make a host of new friends with this account.
Associated Press A paean to aviation and small-town life....Coonts' delight is palpable.
Rocky Mountain News Coonts shares his passion....His account is that of a fellow in love with aircraft and at home in the sky. His writing style is friendly, frank and engaging....His views are outspoken and interesting....Coonts offers a good-humored account of an adventure very few pilots would even attempt.
Chattanooga News-Free Press The Cannibal Queen is a pleasure, a delight to read....I thought many times that Coonts is a little like William F. Buckley, but he flies instead of sails....The book is a keeper.
Sacramento Bee The Cannibal Queen opens a whole new world....This is a much different book from Flight of the Intruder or Under Siege, but it's likely Coonts fans will enjoy this real-life adventure as much as his novels.
Chicago Tribune Enjoyable...breezily written...fun to read....A travelog of small-town America, a walk through American aviation history, a look at contemporary family life and a lot of stream-of-consciousness musings about everything from sailing to weather reports....The Cannibal Queen should have broad appeal....Coonts will leave his readers wanting more.
Kirkus Reviews The culture of the private plane comes delightfully to life as Coonts marvels at a country where every little town has its strip, its laconic air controller, its cheap, clean motel just down the road....The descriptions of flight and the portrait of an America seemingly trapped in a time-warp are arresting. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Denver Post Coonts shares the thrill of his dream with his readers...and he weaves a delightful tapestry that shows us what our country really looks like...Like a balladeer of old, Coonts sings us a song of the awesome power of nature and the beauty of the country. We meet the friendly folk who run small-town airports and that peculiar breed of aviators who fly lovingly restored aeroplanes...Coonts' odyssey...thrills.
New York Daily News Down to earth, above it all....The Cannibal Queen is a bird's eye view of small-town America, a detailed, upbeat journal with lots of airport shop-talk, and meditations on the joy of flight and solitude, and a lament for the despoiling of the environment.
San Diego Union-Tribune What a pleasure to encounter a writer as eloquent about a consuming passion as Stephen Coonts is about aviation....None of his old fans will be disappointed, and he is sure to make a host of new friends with this account.
Associated Press A paean to aviation and small-town life....Coonts' delight is palpable.
Rocky Mountain News Coonts shares his passion....His account is that of a fellow in love with aircraft and at home in the sky. His writing style is friendly, frank and engaging....His views are outspoken and interesting....Coonts offers a good-humored account of an adventure very few pilots would even attempt.
Chattanooga News-Free Press The Cannibal Queen is a pleasure, a delight to read....I thought many times that Coonts is a little like William F. Buckley, but he flies instead of sails....The book is a keeper.
Sacramento Bee The Cannibal Queen opens a whole new world....This is a much different book from Flight of the Intruder or Under Siege, but it's likely Coonts fans will enjoy this real-life adventure as much as his novels.
Chicago Tribune Enjoyable...breezily written...fun to read....A travelog of small-town America, a walk through American aviation history, a look at contemporary family life and a lot of stream-of-consciousness musings about everything from sailing to weather reports....The Cannibal Queen should have broad appeal....Coonts will leave his readers wanting more.
Kirkus Reviews The culture of the private plane comes delightfully to life as Coonts marvels at a country where every little town has its strip, its laconic air controller, its cheap, clean motel just down the road....The descriptions of flight and the portrait of an America seemingly trapped in a time-warp are arresting. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
About the Author
Stephen Coonts is the New York Times bestselling novelist of Flight of the Intruder, Final Flight, The Minotaur, Under Siege, The Red Horseman, The Intruders, The Fortunes of War, and Cuba. He has also edited War in the Air: True-Life Accounts of the 20th Century's Most Dramatic Air Battles by the Men Who Fought Them. A former attorney, Mr. Coonts resides in Clarksville, Maryland. Stephen Coonts can be reached via the Internet at www.coonts.com.
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Stephen Coonts is the author of 14 New York Times bestsellers, the first of which was the classic flying tale, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER.
Born in 1946, Stephen Paul Coonts grew up in Buckhannon, West Virginia, a coal-mining town of 6,000 population on the western slope of the Appalachian mountains. He majored in political science at West Virginia University, graduating in 1968 with an A.B. degree. Upon graduation he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy and began flight training in Pensacola, Florida.
He received his Navy wings in August, 1969. After completion of fleet replacement training in the A-6 Intruder aircraft, Mr. Coonts reported to Attack Squadron 196 at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington. He made two combat cruises aboard USS Enterprise during the final years of the Vietnam War as a member of this squadron. After the war he served as a flight instructor on A-6 aircraft for two years, then did a tour as an assistant catapult and arresting gear officer aboard USS Nimitz. He left active duty in 1977 and moved to Colorado. After short stints as a taxi driver and police officer, he entered the University of Colorado School of Law in the fall of 1977.
Mr. Coonts received his law degree in December, 1979, and moved to West Virginia to practice. He returned to Colorado in 1981 as a staff attorney specializing in oil and gas law for a large independent oil company.
His first novel, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER, published in September 1986 by the Naval Institute Press, spent 28 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists in hardcover. A motion picture based on this novel, with the same title, was released nationwide in January 1991.
The success of his first novel allowed Mr. Coonts to devote himself full time to writing; he has been at it ever since. He and his wife, Deborah, enjoy flying and try to do as much of it as possible.
Mr. Coonts' books have been widely translated and republished in the British Commonwealth, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Russia, China, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Serbia, Latvia, and Israel.
Mr. Coonts was a trustee of West Virginia Wesleyan College from 1990-1998. He was inducted into the West Virginia University Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 1992. The U.S. Naval Institute honored him with its Author of the Year Award for the year 1986 for his novel, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER. Mr. Coonts and his wife, Deborah, reside in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Born in 1946, Stephen Paul Coonts grew up in Buckhannon, West Virginia, a coal-mining town of 6,000 population on the western slope of the Appalachian mountains. He majored in political science at West Virginia University, graduating in 1968 with an A.B. degree. Upon graduation he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy and began flight training in Pensacola, Florida.
He received his Navy wings in August, 1969. After completion of fleet replacement training in the A-6 Intruder aircraft, Mr. Coonts reported to Attack Squadron 196 at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington. He made two combat cruises aboard USS Enterprise during the final years of the Vietnam War as a member of this squadron. After the war he served as a flight instructor on A-6 aircraft for two years, then did a tour as an assistant catapult and arresting gear officer aboard USS Nimitz. He left active duty in 1977 and moved to Colorado. After short stints as a taxi driver and police officer, he entered the University of Colorado School of Law in the fall of 1977.
Mr. Coonts received his law degree in December, 1979, and moved to West Virginia to practice. He returned to Colorado in 1981 as a staff attorney specializing in oil and gas law for a large independent oil company.
His first novel, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER, published in September 1986 by the Naval Institute Press, spent 28 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists in hardcover. A motion picture based on this novel, with the same title, was released nationwide in January 1991.
The success of his first novel allowed Mr. Coonts to devote himself full time to writing; he has been at it ever since. He and his wife, Deborah, enjoy flying and try to do as much of it as possible.
Mr. Coonts' books have been widely translated and republished in the British Commonwealth, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Russia, China, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Serbia, Latvia, and Israel.
Mr. Coonts was a trustee of West Virginia Wesleyan College from 1990-1998. He was inducted into the West Virginia University Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 1992. The U.S. Naval Institute honored him with its Author of the Year Award for the year 1986 for his novel, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER. Mr. Coonts and his wife, Deborah, reside in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Not "the best general aviation book in print",
By ragwing (Mississaga, Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Cannibal Queen (Paperback)
This book is entertaining and I enjoyed reading it, but it is not in the same league as e.g. Richard Bach's A Gift of Wings.The audiotape version, which I recently obtained from the local lending library, really highlights the author's more banal observations and the book's lack of structure. I had to turn it off halfway through the first cassette - a first for me! It's not a bad book, and I'm pleased to have it in my personal library. I don't agree with OmarUSAF's suggestion that it is boring; but it cannot reasonably be considered a classic. Mariana Gosnell's Zero 3 Bravo and (especially) Rinker Buck's Flight of Passage are better accounts of flying across America.
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Great Read!,
By John Purner (Orlando, Florida) - See all my reviews
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A few years ago I bought this book in Sidney as I prepared for the long flight back to the US. The book was so entertaining that it made that journey not only bearable but a pleasure. It is the story of a trip that we would all like to make in a plane we would all like to own. Get it, read it, enjoy it and pass it along to another pilot.
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Light Introductory Cute Read,
By Mike (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
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I read this book several years ago as the book was on special. It was an enjoyable light read for me as I was curious to find outa bit about rural america and the flying experience around it. My specific interest was in terms of the actual flying and the meeting of wonderful people around small american airports and how he paid for his flying. The book was a brief introduction to the joy and tribulations of buying and flying an open cockpit airplane between small airports across most of america. I wished he would of discussed a lot more the scenery and the characters he met along the way. I found that certain airports he just mentions them without delving deeper even though I new that he had to spend a whole day flying just to get to these distant airports. It will mainly satisfy addicts who want an introductory light read about flying across america. For better or worse, he wets our appetite and leaves us with a growling stomach. Pilot (East coast North America, Utah, and Arizona)
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ALL REALLY GREAT FLYING ADVENTURES BEGIN AT DAWN-THE dawn patrol, takeoff from Roosevelt Field for the flight across the Atlantic to Paris, launch at first light for a strike on Rabaul, and so on. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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ALL REALLY GREAT FLYING ADVENTURES BEGIN AT DAWN-THE dawn patrol, takeoff from Roosevelt Field for the flight across the Atlantic to Paris, launch at first light for a strike on Rabaul, and so on. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cannibal Queen, Flight Service, World War, Air Force, United States, West Virginia, New York, Disney World, Niagara Falls, Naval Air Station, Skid Henley, Baton Rouge, Grand Canyon, Main Street, New Orleans, Los Angeles, New Salem, South Carolina, Soviet Union, Steve Hall, Joe Mabee, John Weisbart, Lloyd Stearman, National Park Service, Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome New!
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- The Cannibal Queen: An Aerial Odyssey Across America by Stephen Coonts on 7 pages
- Under Siege by Stephen Coonts on 4 pages
- Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts on 4 pages
- The Red Horseman by Stephen Coonts in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- War in the Air by Stephen Coonts in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Under Siege by Stephen Coonts on 4 pages
- Slipping the Surly Bonds: Great Quotations on Flight by Dave English on page 31, page 32, and page 153
- The Intruders by Stephen Coonts in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- The Red Horseman by Stephen Coonts in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- War in the Air : True Accounts of the 20th Century's Most Dramatic Air Battles-By the Men Who Fought Them by Stephen Coonts in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
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