A NEED FOR GLORY

A fine copy in very good dust jacket with a slightly faded spine. Pp. 163. Chronicles the tragic and dramatic life of pioneer aviator John Cowe McIntosh. It documents his rise to prominence in early aviation and his obsession with personal and national achievement, capturing a period when pilots risked everything to chart the skies. The book reconstructs the historic, high-stakes flights and technical challenges faced by McIntosh as he sought to cement his name alongside the legendary trailblazers of early Australian aviation history. Beyond the mechanics of his planes, the biography delves deeply into McIntosh's internal psychology that pushed him to take extreme risks, a pursuit that ultimately ended in his untimely death in a plane crash in 1921 at just 29 years old.