Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on February 2, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(1):186-188; doi:10.1093/es/khm006
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Erik Benson. Aviator of Fortune: Lowell Yerex and the AngloAmerican Commercial Rivalry, 19311946
Erik Benson. Aviator of Fortune: Lowell Yerex and the AngloAmerican Commercial Rivalry, 19311946. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xii + 264 pp. ISBN 1-58544-500-2, $45.00 (cloth)
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This is the story of the colorful career of a somewhat improbably named New Zealander, Lowell Yerex, an earlier pioneer of aviation in the Caribbean and Central America during the 1930s and 1940s. The book charts the origins of Yerex's determination to establish air services in the region and focuses particularly on his attempts to interest the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom in his ventures. He hoped, for example,
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