More Than A Man Can Stand: A Novel of Fact and Speculation

More Than A Man Can Stand: A Novel of Fact and Speculation - Paul Redfern was one of the heroic aviators of 1927. He came up with an idea that would make him more heroic than Charles Lindbergh. Instead of the historic 33-hour solo flight that Lindbergh made from New York to Paris, Redfern set out to fly 50 hours from Brunswick, Georgia, to Rio de Janiero. Three months after Lindbergh set foot in Paris, Redfern took off in a single-engine plane with no radio and no parachute. Somewhere along the way to Rio, he went down. He had ignored advice that his proposed flight was more than a man can stand. Over the next eleven years, there were thirteen expeditions to South America to search for Redfern. There were persistent rumors driving the search of a white man who had fallen from the sky, and who was living with a native tribe. What really happened to Redfern? This book weaves together what little is actually known about the pilot after his crash with brilliant speculation as to his life among the Yonomami and other dangerous tribes of the Orinoco Basin of Venezuela.