FLT OF COAST DOG

Subtitled: A Pilot's Log. Bush flying is a risky venture at the best of times, requiring nerves of steel during emergencies. Jack Schofield flew as a 'coast dog', a seaplane pilot on the B.C. mid-coast area, from the 1960s until the 1980s. In Flights of a Coast Dog each of the twenty chapters is rich with anecdote and a pilot's eye-view of the people Schofield carried or worked with in northern Vancouver Island communities. This book chronicles Schofield's adventures and misadventures with a variety of these characters - many of them colorful, some just plain dangerous. A fascinating picture of life in a fast and disappearing frontier. Hdbd., 8 1-4'x 8 1-4', 192 pgs., 60 b&w ill.