Island in the Sky

Island in the Sky, first published in 1944, is aviator Ernest Gann's exciting, realistic novel of aviation and survival in the far north of Canada. The Corsair, a plane attached to the Army Air Transport Command during the Second World War, is forced to land after heavy icing of the wings makes the plane unflyable. The crew look to Dooley, the pilot, for guidance in order to survive the frigid conditions, and a rescue mission is mounted from support bases and search aircraft. Island in the Sky was the subject of a 1953 movie of the same name starring John Wayne.