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Title: This Is No Travelogue
Review: After reading the Editorial Reviews here, I bought this book hoping for a travelogue from a "dentist turned bush pilot." Instead, this is a book of poorly done undergraduate-level philosophy.The author treats respectfully both the Inuit, who apologized to the spirits of the animals they killed, and mid-twentieth-century intellectuals, who were absolutely certain (unencumbered by data) that there must be intelligent life in outer space. For Christianity and western civilization in general he shows nothing but contempt. Whatever.This book's title and promotion promise something entirely different from this book. I wanted to read about the flying: How he read the weather, how he assessed whether a particular lake was adequate for landing. Is it possible to land in a lake that's too short to take off from? What other flying has this author done? Why did he take this trip? Why was he alone?Well, I did find the answer to that last question: He's a sophist and a bore.
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