Image via WikipediaThe retirement to a small flying club in Tasmania was John Pascoe's choice. He had been an international airline Senior Captain The choice could be compared to an international golfer retiring as the pro at a small golf club in the Shetlands. People come for lessons, get the hang of the skill and off they go flying their own fairways in the sky. This facet of the story made me feel that I actually could take flying lessons with someone like John and be in the air fearlessly solo in no time.
He always looked about the same, from the time I remember him when I was a boy. He would have been about five feet nine in height with partially grey hair, regular features, rather a fine face, very tanned, a little lined toward the end. He hadn't got a great deal of humour in him, rather stiff. Women liked him.
is also an airline pilot. In Sydney between flights, he discovers that John Pascoe has had an accident in Tasmania. The narrator's offer of help in his rescue begins the unfolding of the earlier life of Pascoe and the woman he loved. The story has that post-WW2 feeling of action men, and women, whose confidence in themselves and their skill had been honed in wartime - a real period piece. An adventure and a love story. The film would have had Errol Flynn and Greer Garson but I am not sure if the lady would have worn the leather helmet, certainly the former would have.
At least 8 out 10. The title comes from the poem ''The Treasure' by Rupert Brooke - the main character in the last book reviewed on this blog.
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