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This great book is wedged full of interesting stories, like Blacker’s flight over the towering Mount Everest, or his exciting exploration of Persia. Unfortunately, there really are far too many amazing anecdotes to sufficiently do the book justice in my short review. If you want to learn more about this influential and extraordinary man, I can highly recommend this very interesting book.

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Every so often, previously unpublished biographies and collections of diaries and correspondence surface and are turned in a unique and very enjoyable book that is compelling and, while seeming incredible against modern experience, is entirely believable. This book is one such. Stewart Blacker is a larger than life individual who was not that unusual in his times, but has perhaps no modern equivalent. That is as much due the changes in society as it is in the human. There are parts of Blacker that will be familiar. He is in part 'Q' from the James Bond stories. In part he is Biggles from that fictional aviator. There are many extracts of his character and experiences that do chime today but, as a whole, he is really extraordinary and shows how life in the early years of the 20th Century was more flexible than today. This is a book that should be read by many as a fascinating insight into times past, and the level of endeavour that is so different from the period a century later. Very Highly Commended for style and content...

Blackers grandson has made a very good job of compiling an absorbing biography, using documents from the family archives. It is a story that hits so many points of interest and deserves to achieve a wide readership, providing a very human story of a remarkable individual and an environment that was so very different from the world today.

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