But more than that, Sabre Pilot is a book that everyone who is interested n flying, and anyone who is looking for a dramatic and action-packed narrative will welcome and enjoy. For young men who are looking ahead to military service it will be a rewarding book. When the pirates capture another boy named Bob for ransom the boys team together. The background of this fast moving story is as authentic as Air Force cooperation and the author’s own research can make it. Jeremy is kidnapped and dragged off on a dangerous journey to the West Indies. Advance training as a jet fighter pilot follows, and under accelerated wartime conditions, he is sent to Korea at once where, through grim but exciting missions he becomes a full-fledged jet “tiger.” With a lot of extra study, he is able to complete his second year of college credits, left unfinished when his father had a heart attack, and he qualifies as an Aviation Cadet and wins his wings. At A&E school in Texas, Kirk begins to realize that he’d give anything for a chance to become a pilot. Meader is currently considered a 'single author.' If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.
Seventeen-year-old Kirk Owen turns from hot-rod racing to enlist in the Air Force, just as the Korean fighting starts. Meader (primary author only) Author division. Now in Sabre Pilot, he adds a new dimension-the air.
Meader, one of the most noted and popular writers of books for young people, has covered many aspects of American life, both modern and historical. With b/w text illustrations throughout, including 6 plates.With thirty highly successful books to his credit, Stephen W. However, the other titles listed on the dustwrapper date this reprint to at least 1945. One of Meader's earlier offerings, this was originally published in 1931. Offended by the cruelty he witnesses aboard, he escapes at his first opportunity, only to end up having to survive in the Louisiana wilds. The adventures of Jim Slater, a young boy who runs away from home to become a sailor, and ends up working on a slave ship bound for Africa. 1821, Away to Sea, Jim Slater runs away to sea and finds he is one of the crew. Published by Dover Publications(2019) ISBN 10: 0486838307ISBN 13: 9780486838304 Used Softcover Quantity: 5 From: GreatBookPricesUK(Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Softcover Condition: As New £ 4.56 Convert currency Shipping:£ 2. Interior bindings slightly fragile but intact with clean pages. Information on the historic naval fiction author Stephen Warren Meader. Spine well sunned dustwrapper has moderate tears, abrasions and soiling extremities chapped w/ some material loss large dampstain on rear some repairs (with postage stamps) on dustwrapper verso inner panels price-clipped. Octavo 21cm bright blue publisher's cloth, stamped in black, in color pictorial dustwrapper 233pp, frontis, 6 plates.
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