6.25" x 9.25", 245 page hardcover with dustjacket titled SOLO TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD: GUS McLEOD'S DARING RECORD FLIGHT by Gustavus A. McLeod/ Smithsonian Books, ISBN # 1-58-834102-X, First Printing , copyright 2003/ On April 17, 2000, Gus McLeod circled the geographic North Pole in a 60-year-old, open-cockpit biplane, a goal that had eluded aviation pioneers for a century and the climax of a two-year adventure of harrowing physical, mechanical, and natural challenges. Called crazy and worse, the irrepressible McLeod formed a team that included a car mechanic, a chase pilot who had just earned his license, and an historic 1939 Stearman trainer held together through the most extreme conditions on earth with duct tape, jerry-rigged ingenuity, and snow-blind faith. Readers will shake their heads in disbelief, cry and laugh out loud as McLeod and his troupe of quipping, quarreling characters bounce from scrapes with deadly disaster, to soaring triumphs, to side-splitting encounters with a revolving cast of eskimos, renegades, and bush pilots awaiting them at each stop on Canada's frozen tundra. With death only a blast of frigid wind or a gallon of bad gas away, McLeod learns life-transforming lessons about the importance of family, friends, and self-identity. Defiantly out of the ordinary and rich in human dimensions far beyond a death-defying flight in the frozen Arctic, Solo to the Top of the World is a soul-stirring, heart-warming journey for all seekers and dreamers, winged or earthbound.

The book is complete and in VERY FINE condition with just some overall light wear. On the half-title page is inscribed, 'To: Dave, Enjoy the read. Thanks for having me down. Gus McLeod 9/30/09".