Alone Over The Tasman Sea

ALONE OVER THE TASMAN SEA is a story of Sir Francis Chichester’s 1931 flight from New Zealand to Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island and on to Sidney in a birdcage airplane, the wood and fiber de Havilland Moth. In the 1930’s, flight was still in its dangerous infancy. Chichester’s trip, in which he had to find pin-speck islands in a remote and uncharted sea, tested not only his courage, resolution and stamina. “For the things of which Francis Chichester writes are the things of man’s old quest and danger and adventure and achievement, the sun and the wind, the many-launching waves and the steady thunder of seas on island beaches.” (Publisher’s Source)