The Far Horizon: Twenty Years of Adventure, Development, and Invention of the New Air Frontier: The Life Story of Birger Johnsen

xv, 284 pp. "For Birger Johnsen life has always meant flying. He has been an aviator since boyhood and his career has locked step with the development of aviation from the days just after the war, when flying was still a circus, till now when it is a flourishing industry. Mr. Birger has done stunt flying for county fairs and air acrobatics for the movies; has been air observer for the Irrigation Service and 'wild duck patrol' in the Sacramento Valley rice fields; has carried mail in Mexico, where he was commandeered by a Mexican general, and in China, where he was captured by pirates."