Fasten Your Seat Belts! History and Heroism in the Pan Am Cabin

by Valerie Lester

The first history of an airline as told through the eyes of the cabin crew.Included are the 1947 crash in the Syrian desert;the last flight from Saigon, and many other stories from the crews who were there.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Valerie Lester is the author of the biographies Phiz: The Man Who Drew Dickens (Chatto & Windus, 2004), Giambattista Bodoni: His Life and His World (Godine, 2015), and Marvels: The Life of Clarence Bicknell, Botanist, Archaeologist, Artist (Troubadour, 2018). She is also the author of the history, Fasten Your Seatbelts! History and Heroism in the Pan Am Cabin (Paladwr, 1994), and the translator of Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes (Vintage, 2009).