Flight of Passage: A True Story by Rinker Buck adolescence John Steinbeck embarked on a

John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America

in a style that pings with the charm and timelessness of an enduring classic

for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful'

Told for more than a thousand years

Flight of Passage: A True Story by Rinker Buck adolescence John Steinbeck embarked on aIn the Summer of 1966, Rinker and Kernahan Buck two teenaged schoolboys from New Jersey bought a dilapidated Piper Cub airplane for $300, rebuilt it, and piloted it on a record breaking flight across America navigating all the way to California without a radio, because they couldn't afford one. Their trip retraced a mythical route flown by their father, Tom Buck, a brash, colorful ex barnstormer who had lost a leg in a tragic air crash before his sons