Stephen Coonts has been hailed as the best contemporary author writing about flying.
Stephen Coonts can be reached via the Internet at www.coonts.com..
Coonts resides in Clarksville, Maryland.
A former attorney, Mr.
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.
About author(s): 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.
You owe it to yourself to go flying with Stephen Coonts .
Over half the fan mail he has received through the years has been about this book.
Coonts captures the joy and wonder of flight on every page.
First published in 1992, The Cannibal Queen was Coonts\' first venture into nonfiction and is hailed today as a classic flying story.
Yet, by the end of the journey, having met the friendly, richly individual people in towns large and small across the land, he knows our nation has weathered her first two hundred years remarkably well, and he is filled with hope for the future of this vast and varied land. there amid the barbecues and barber-shop quartets, the tree lined streets with their modest homes, Coonts feels nostalgia for small-town America, for a way of life he felt was dying.
Francis, Kansas.
First stop is a Stearman fly-in in St.
For Coonts, who\'s logged thousands of hours in the Navy\'s most sophisticated aircraft, the Queen is flying as he\'s never known it before--flying close the earth, the wind teasing his helmet, equipped with little more than a map and a compass.
On a clear, sunny Saturday in June, Coonts and his fourteen-year-old son David take off from Boulder, Colorado, in a 1942 Stearman open cockpit biplane, "a noisy forty-nine-year-old wood and canvas crate with a naked floozy painted on the side." The Queen started life as a World War II primary trainer then spent over thirty years as an agricultural spray plane before being lovingly restored.
Joining the ranks of John Steinbeck and Charles Kuralt, Coonts takes us on an extraordinary adventure, touching down in all forty-eight of the continental United States.
In The Cannibal Queen , he turns his storytelling genius to nonfiction with an exultant account of three glorious months in the summer of \'91 spent in the cockpit of a 1942 Stearman vintage biplane.
Stephen Coonts has been hailed as the best contemporary author writing about flying
