Book Review - "Due South"

The original idea was gloriously simple, at least in concept – to fly a helicopter from the very top of the world to the very bottom – a feat never before attempted. The journey would take in some of the planet’s most extreme wildernesses, from the polar ice sheets to mountain ranges and canyons, rainforests and deserts, river and oceans, glaciers and sand dunes, with visits to indigenous tribal groups along the way.  Pilots Steve Brooks and Joanna Vestey were no strangers to adventure.  Steve had already found his way into the record books as the first person to drive from America to Russia across the Bering Strait, while Joanna had worked all over the world as a photographer.  This is the story of how together they flew the length of the Americas...