James Winchester

'Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! This is GB-ZQC, a PA 28. Engine failure. Making a forced landing 10 miles south east of Penrith. Passing 2,000 feet. Heading 360.' This is an intriguing, action-packed and often romantic account of episodes in the life of James Winchester: pilot, adventurer and traveller. His early years and later career take him to a series of exotic locations around the world, from a Roman amphitheatre in Cyprus to a downtown night club in Hong Kong: from a luxury hotel in New York to a rondavel in Nigeria. It embraces, from the 1950s to the new millennium, a kaleidoscope of exhilarating, romantic and sometimes downright risqué situations.