CloudDancer's Alaskan Chronicles: Volume II [Paperback]

CloudDancer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 17, 2008

This serving of CloudDancer's Alaskan Chronicles takes up right where the original left off. Between these book covers is another heapin' helping' of laughter and stress relief. As always he's written for everyone who loves Alaska and airplanes.This is the second of a three volume series. Again you'll feel as if you're sitting right beside CloudDancer in the cockpit. Half your time is spent on the EDGE of your seat. The other half is spent laughing so hard you'll be glad you're wearing your seatbelt.CloudDancer readers who bought the original book demanded more. Many refuse to even loan the book to a friend it is so cherished. And one pilot-Mom reports that her 12-year-old son used a story from the first book for a schoolbook report. It got an A-Plus! Some may question whether these tales are completely true. CloudDancer swears they are. But nobody denies that they are some of the funniest flying follies ever written.Now read in at least 32 states and eight countries around the world, the CloudDancer's Alaskan Chronicles and that silly sack head's disciples have started a craze that keeps spreading. So come in and laugh till you feel good!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

CloudDancer today flies for a U.S. Airline. Logging his first flying hours at age 13 in 1967, his 22,000+ hour logbook includes 12,000 flown in Arctic Alaska. Those hours provided both the drama and laughter contained herein. Since running away at 19 to Alaska, CloudDancer remains devoted to ?the Great Land?.

Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (April 17, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059548770X
• ISBN-13: 978-0595487707
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,298,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars "Mixture, Prop, Power - ID, verify, feather!!" Aaahhhh overboost!, May 4, 2009

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Ken Couch (Arlington, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CloudDancer's Alaskan Chronicles: Volume II (Paperback)

Ah...forget the overboost - these are Pratt-Whitneys!! Yah sure, you betcha...

Anyway, I've known CloudDancer for 28 yrs (whew!) and every one of em has been etched in my memory with a smile. Always knew he was a great crooner but, the writing was a genuine surprise. Have to say, I should've known. Once an artist, always an artist no matter whether the canvas is a plane, a transcript, a song OR a Lady!! This guy is one of the best writers of a story I've come across. If any of you have read any Louie Lamour(sp?) books you'll know what I mean about a writer that can make you feel, smell, and see the action. CloudDancer is one of those writers.

Captain CloudDancer has written a couple of gems. Having tasted the

same kind of flying and experiences as he has, the stories became all too familiar, which leads to the kind of book you absolutely cannot put down.

Thanks for the memories my friend...!

Capt. Krunch

5.0 out of 5 stars What if you're not a pilot?, May 7, 2008

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Chukchiboy (Anchorage, AK United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CloudDancer's Alaskan Chronicles: Volume II (Paperback)

You should read the Chronicles, too, is my vote!

As you can see from the other reviews, pilots love these yarns. But anybody with the slightest interest in Bush Alaska and its larger-than-life characters, climate, and country will love the Chronicles, too.

Besides being a professional pilot with many thousands of hours in his logbook, Clouddancer is a soulful raconteur and a born storyteller. The best of these stories are people stories, and Clouddancer understands people, which is the most important thing in a writer.

That said, you have to make some allowances.

For one thing, as a writer, Clouddancer makes a great Bush pilot. By which I mean, he brings much enthusiasm and passion to his writing, but not-so-much polish (although we're working on that -- I'm his unofficial coach/consultant/cheerleader). So don't expect the kind of finely honed prose you'd find in an Ernest Hemingway novel (although there are comparable quantities of liquor and sex).

Also, about half of these stories are extremely technical accounts of various situations that come up in flying, both Bush and air-carrier. They'll be nearly incomprehensible to non-pilots, and perhaps not particularly interesting for those not into flying, per se.

But these are quibbles. I give the Chronicles 5 stars because they are, on balance, really great Alaska flying books, of which there are far too few.

Stan Jones

One-time amateur Kotzebue Bush pilot, as well as author of the Nathan Active mystery series, which is set in a fictional Alaskan Eskimo village modeled on Kotzebue, where Clouddancer cut his Bush-flying teeth