The Flight of the Phoenix, Elleston Trevor
The Flight of the Phoenix, Elleston Trevor
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The Flight of the Phoenix

Author: Elleston Trevor

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 6 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2005

Synopsis

They are twelve men who shouldnt be alive. They have survived the sudden blinding sandstorm that crippled their air freighter. Survived a desperate crash landing in the Sahara. Survived to face the slow, dry, agonizing death of the desert. Twelve men with one hope: to build a new plane from the wreckage of their Skytruck and make a flight out of hell.

About Elleston Trevor

Elleston Trevor (1920–1995), who also wrote under the pseudonym of Adam Hall, was born in London but lived with his family on the French Riviera for many years before moving to Arizona. He was awarded the Edgar Award for his book The Quiller Memorandum, but his best-known novel is The Flight of the Phoenix.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on July 13, 2023

I found this story fascinating, supposedly based on a true event a group of oil company workers aboard a plane crash in the.Mongolian desert. The plane is beyond fixing and the men are stranded with very little In the way of supplies. With no hope of rescue either. The men try a few ideas for rescue......more

Goodreads review by Bill on July 23, 2012

My first experience with The Flight of the Phoenix was seeing the original movie version which was released in 1965, starring James Stewart and Richard Attenborough. It's always been one of my favourites, a battle against the harsh desert after a plane crash in a sand storm. At the time I had no ide......more

Goodreads review by Dwayne on August 01, 2021

A plane crashes in the Libyan desert. Its crew struggle to survive and return to civilization. Their only hope is to build a scaled-down working airplane from the wreck. The captain staggers under the weight of the deaths that occurred. Can the seemingly unfeeling passenger really design The Phoenix......more

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