Does have the number 97 written in pen on the top edge of the pages. Wear to front cover. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: In the Summer of 1966, Rinker and Kernahan Buck, two schoolboys from New Jersey, bought a dilapidated Piper Cub for $300, rebuilt it in their barn, and took off on the journey of a lifetime--daring flight across the Rockies to California. They became the youngest aviators on record to fly America coast to coast, and their thirst for adventure,and the simple audacity of their trip, mirrored the innocence of the times Because they couldn't afford one, they navigated all the way to California without a radio. The critically acclaimed "Flight of Passage" is also a timeless story of fathers and sons. The Buck brothers retraced a mythical route West flown by their fathers, Tom Buck, a brash, colorful ex-barnstormer who had lost his leg in a tragic air crash, but who so loved the romance of flight that he taught his boys to fly before they could drive. Now, winging it out across the deserts and the mountains, the brothers must separate from this difficult, quirky man. Yet "Flight of Passage" goes beyond two young men in search of themselves and their country. It is a narrative about the eternal enigma of family, of freedom won at the cost of pain and truth, told with a storytelling power that is both brave and rare.