ISBN:  978-0-945397-83-0. Copyright May 2000. Softcover. 255 pages.  44 B&W photos. 1 map.  Dimensions: 5.75" x 8.75" x .50"

From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Northern Wilderness. A Memoir: James "Andy" Anderson as told to Jim Rearden

From the front cover: I've never read a book that so skillfully puts the reader into a bush pilot's head and so compellingly captures the drama, adventure, and misadventure of Arctic flying.  - Cliff Cernick, Flyer magazine

From the back cover: From War to Wilderness

Backed by Wien Airlines, former Navy combat pilot "Andy" Anderson pioneered post-World War II bush service to Alaska's vast Koyukuk River region serving miners, Natives, sportsmen, geologists, adventurers, and assorted bush rats.

He flew mining equipment, gold, live wolves and sled dogs, you name it - anything needed for life in the bush.  He sweated out dozens of dangerous medical-emergency flights, "always at night and in terrible storms."

Illustrated with 50 historical photos and co-authored by one of Alaska's most popular writers, Arctic Bush Pilot is an exciting and sometimes nostalgic account of a pioneer pilot and his special place in Alaska aviation history.

Arctic Bush Pilot brings alive the beauty of the Koyukuk region and its people.  - Paul Haggland, pilot, Fairbanks, Alaska

I'd have died of pneumonia one winter if Andy Anderson hadn't flown me from Huslia to the Tanana Hospital in rotten weather. - Sidney Huntington, Galena, Alaska

Table of Contents
 
Acknowledgments
Preface
Map
 
Introduction
 
1 -   To Alaska
2 -   Battleship Sailor
3 -   Navy Pilot
4 -   The T-Craft and the Cheechako
5 -   Wien Airlines
6 -   Building a Business
7 -   People Strange and Bewildering
8 -   Running out of  Altitude, Common Sense - and Luck
9 -   Coping with the Arctic
10 -  Koyukuk Miners
11 -  Flying the Mail
12 - A Day in My Life
13 -  The Crislers
14 -  Lost Pilots, Broken Airplanes, and Other Tragedies
15 -  Never a Dull Moment
16 -  Bush Planes
17 -  Farewell
 
About James Anderson
About Jim Rearden
Index