green sky

Description

Emergency flights to bring medicines to missions abandoned by the hand of God, meetings with gold and diamond diggers, coexistence with miserable workers dedicated to the exploitation of cork and with tribes endowed with ancestral wisdom that guarantees its conservation, explorations with adventurous aristocrats, wild animals, inconceivable landings, risky takeoffs, treacherous skies that disorient the most skilled pilots due to the continuous changes of the thermal layers. And confrontations with unscrupulous companies willing to do anything: steal the wealth of the jungle, exterminate the peoples they inhabit and instigate war between nations to give free rein to their ambition. All these elements dot the daily life of the protagonist of this novel, vocational pilot, young survivor of the First World War and aviation pioneer in the Amazon jungle. Folco Quilici is inspired by the legendary figure C. Angel, discoverer of Angel Falls (the highest waterfall in the world in Venezuela), to create a daring and moving character. Mike, trapped by the exuberant wealth and attraction of the immense virgin forest and driven by the desire to pursue a dream, always close and never caught, It is one of the first to cross and get to know in depth that green sky where the trees and grasses are reflected., lagos, swamps and rivers of the splendid Amazon.