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GAN writer releases new book

By General Aviation News Staff · November 10, 2014 ·

Now available is “Down The Little Pee Dee,” a new book about paddling one of South Carolina’s most beautiful rivers, written by Bill Walker, a pilot and General Aviation News contributor, who explored the river from above before taking to the water.

Little Pee Dee cover photoWalker, who regularly flies his 1956 Cessna on story trips for General Aviation News in the Carolinas and Georgia, flew more than a dozen times above the Little Pee Dee in researching and photographing the most scenic lakes, oxbow formations and sloughs along the route.

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GAN contributor Bill Walker in his 1956 Cessna before a flight over the Little Pee Dee River.

A description of the final flight down the 109-mile length of the river provided the material for the last chapter of the 172-page book.

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Walker flew the Little Pee Dee River from its headwaters to the junction with the Great Pee Dee River (shown here) in an isolated area not far from the South Carolina coast.

Down The Little Pee Dee is available in hardback and paperback online at WSWbooks.com and from booksellers nationally including Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com.

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