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BIOGRAPHY
 Galen Hanselman is not just one of my favorite traveling
buddies, he's one of my favorite travel writers. Whether he's writing about the snow peak
wilderness of Idaho or the desert beaches of Baja, he does so with clarity and precision.
I trust the guy. I trust his prose as much as I trust his piloting. As a white-knuckle
flier, I can offer no more heartful endorsement than that. As a columnist for Outside
Magazine, I take travel and travel writing seriously, so I'm not quick to hand out
compliments. I know what I'm talking about because I flew with the man all over the Baja
Peninsula while he gathered material for his book Air Baja!. Galen is a fanatic about
accuracy and first person experience, so we spent much of our time landing on hellishly
rough outback runways, then carefully measuring them, step by step. In the heat. In the
wind. There was no guessing, no estimating, no cutting corners. The information we were
collecting HAD to be accurate because it was going into HIS book. And he had to experience
it himself.
That's the way Galen is . . . and that's why these books are not just for pilots, but
for any traveler who wants precise and honest information about the wild backcountry of
Idaho, Utah, Montana or Baja. Give these books a try. Galen will become one of your favorite traveling
buddies, too.
Randy Wayne White/Pine Island, Florida |
