Item #1665 Der Fliegende Doktor. Clyde FENTON.

Der Fliegende Doktor

Zurich: Orell Fussli Verlag, 1954. Small quarto, original blue cloth, 234 pp., endpaper maps, photo plates. Aside from a little unobtrusive foxing, an excellent copy in a chipped dust-jacket. The German translation of The Flying Doctor. Clyde Cornwall Fenton practised medicine in the Northern Territory for six years before the outbreak of the Second World War. This intrepid medico and self-taught pilot flew his own dingle-engine Gypsy Moths without navigation equipment, charts or landing strips. He tended the illnesses and accidents of the pioneering folk of the Territory by practising medicine from a cockpit. Item #1665

Price (AUD): $50.00

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