A light stain on lower edge -max size 30x5mm, extending 15pp into the book. No signs of ownership or having been read. All pages uniformly tanned. 32pp of b&w photog plates, map as frontis. Smith was one of the pioneers of the African air-routes. In this book he recounts what it was like to fly open-cockpit, single-engine aircraft over the length and breadth of primitive Africa in the early 1930s. Please see also “Scott’s Book” of 1934 in this catalogue. 172 pp.