'Bird of the Islands' by Gordon Taylor. WW1 pilot, co-pilot of Kingsford-Smith and in the 50s he bought a Short Sandringham flying boat (ultimate derivative of the Sunderland) and ran luxury aerial cruises round the South Pacific, landing in genuinely uncharted places.
Extraordinary.
QDM
P.S. Here it is at
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