ASIN: B00KIZ6K2E
Publisher: Acrodile Publishing Ltd
Pages: 48
The stories in this book are about the early days.Michael was no professional pilot, but he flew andnavigated the skies without the modern aid of GPS, andsomehow against often enormous odds of weather anddarkness managed to reach his destination, and thepatients who awaited him.Michael's asthma never left him, though it was greatlyimproved by the warm climate in Kenya. His life alwayshad this aspect of endurance, and in both his flying, hissurgical work and his building of the Flying DoctorServices and AMREF, it was his courage and tenacitythat saw him through so many difficulties and dangers.He says in one of the chapters of this book when he wasfaced with the coming dark and threatening weatherconditions, "I realised that I could not turn back." Not toturn back was the essence of his life and achievement.
