This personal account of the author's search for uranium in the 1950s tells about the excitement, the disappointments, and the discoveries of a pilot-geologist team flying a Piper Super Cub in the rim country of the Southwest. Written as a memoir, it looks back at the author's experience as a pilot in the postwar propeller navy and forward to flying in the nineties after a two-decade hiatus. It is a story about youthful adventure, visions of wealth, and the allure of flying written for people of all ages wishing to escape from the ordinary.
Earl Rogers, a third generation Californian, comes from a family of writers. His father, Bogart Rogers wrote for national magazines, and his aunt, Adela Rogers St Johns, was a well known writer of short stories for the Hearst newspapers. Mr. Rogers has lived in Beverly Hills, San Diego, and Sacramento and has hiked and backpacked extensively in the mountains of California. He has published three books, A Yankee Ace in the RAF, a collaborative work published by the University Press of Kansas, Flying the Rim, a memoir about aerial prospecting for uranium, and The Mountain of Seven Gables, his first novel, set against a background of Northern California and the John Muir Trail from Yosemite to the summit of Mt Whitney. A licensed pilot, he says that flying is a lot like hiking in the mountains. If you get high enough the views are great. He has written numerous articles for aviation, travel, and outdoor publications and local newspapers.
