Flying Naked 2: The Hunt for Vilcabamba's Gold is the companion volume to Flying Naked: An American Pilot in the Amazon Jungle. Together the two books wrap up Michael Bleriot's Emerald World series of aviation adventures. Flying Naked 2 continues the story of a continent-wide treasure hunt sparked when one of the pilots in a Panama-based airlift squadron has a dream that shakes his companions out of their flying lethargy and prompts them to search high and low for bits and pieces of the tropical world around them. From Guatemala to Bolivia, the flyers challenge themselves and their airplane...

The magical, lyrical, hysterical flying adventure from the author of Memories of an Emerald World and The Jungle Express When a sleep-deprived American Air Force pilot in Panama has a vision of tropical treasure, his misfit companions set out to bring the dream to reality. Thus begins a dramatic and hilarious shakedown of every country south of the Texas border, from the jungles of the Yucatan peninsula to the salt flats of Bolivia, as the well-intentioned but often overeager flyers try to collect the dream's baubles and solve the mystery behind them all. Based on Bleriot's own experiences...