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By Michael Wood,Susan Wood

ISBN-10: 9966007563

ISBN-13: 9789966007568

The tales during this publication are in regards to the early days.
Michael was once no expert pilot, yet he flew and
navigated the skies with out the trendy relief of GPS, and
somehow opposed to frequently huge, immense odds of climate and
darkness controlled to arrive his vacation spot, and the
patients who awaited him.
Michael's bronchial asthma by no means left him, even though it was once greatly
improved by means of the nice and cozy weather in Kenya. His lifestyles always
had this element of persistence, and in either his flying, his
surgical paintings and his development of the Flying Doctor
Services and AMREF, it was once his braveness and tenacity
that observed him via such a lot of problems and dangers.
He says in a single of the chapters of this publication while he was
faced with the arriving darkish and dangerous weather
conditions, "I realised that i couldn't flip back." now not to
turn again was once the essence of his existence and achievement.

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