Angus and Robertson Sydney, 1965, 1st.Edn, 4to, Illust, 296pp, D/J, Qantas Rising is the story of two young ex-servicemen who had nothing to do after World War I, so they founded one of the world's great airlines. The airline was Qantas. Sir Hudson Fysh's own career is of course inseparable from that of Qantas. It covers his boyhood in Tasmania, with the Light Horse at Gallipoli and in Palestine; and as a war-time observer and pilot, his epic journey across the Northern Territory in search of suitable landing sites for Ross Smith historic first flight from England to Australia after Qantas had been founded over a hotel table in Brisbane. It tells of his barnstorming around outback, of desperate battles against rival companies to secure vital contracts; This is the history of Qantas up to 1934. -Fine
