Wings Over Wilcannia : Len Daniels Australias First Flying Parson, by Kerry E Medway, (researched and edited)

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Softcover, Bushwacker Publishing Co

The Reverend Leonard Daniels, a plucky English clergyman came to Australia in 1922 and began a ministry of God's love and care to isolated people in Western New South Wales. In 1928 he brought a Cirrus Moth aeroplane to Wilcannia and carved his name into the hearts of outback people and became a legend as Australia's First Flying Parson. 

Good+ condition. 64 pages Stiff card cover has numerous creases down length of book, otherwise book in good + condition, staples holding book together tightly. Lots of photographs.

Chapters include, 1.From Woking to Wilcannia, 2.Arriving Outback, 3.A Parish as big as England, 4.A Flying Ford, 5.Dreaming up a Moth, 6.A crash Landing, 7.Outback Flying, 8.Flying Blind, 9.Fencing Wire Flying, 10.The Archdeacon of up-a-gum-tree!, 11.Reluctant Passengers, 12.Synod at Hay, 13.Keeping the Moth in the Air, 14.The Land of Silence, 15.The Big Gutter!, 16.Gaining a Co-Pilot, 17.Pioneers of the Outback, 18.Farewell to the Far West,