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This is the story of Silva Mcleod, the first Tongan woman to become an airline pilot. Silva tells of the cultural changes she experienced as an island girl who married an Australian, started a family and then pursued her dream of a flying career, all set against the backdrop of the love story of her life with her husband and his battle with cancer.
Table des matières
Part 1 – Contents
Prologue – Be My Voice
1. How We Crossed Paths
2. Courtship
3. The Proposals
4. Wedding of Two Cultures
5. Wife, a Different Life
6. End of the Project
7. Bon Voyage
8. The Promised Land
9. Finding My Niche in His World
10. A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed
11. ‘Elisapesi – Gift of God
12. New Identity
13. Temaleti – Goddess of the Sea
14. Token of My Love
15. Home Coming
16. The Checkout Chick
17. Powerless Without You
18. Post tenebras lux – Light after Darkness
Part 2 – Contents
19. Health and a New Era
20. Love Affair that Defies Gravity
21. Spreading My Wings
22. A Dream Comes True
23. The Fear and Pain of Being Apart
24. The Gift of a Second Chance
25. Returning to the Sky
26. Royal Flying Doctor Service
27. The Virgin Granny
28. Tell Death I’m Not Ready
29. Save the Last Supper for Me
30. Liva, I am Tired
31. Flying Solo
32. Until We Meet again
33. ‘Ofa‘anga Folau a – Smooth Sailing my Love
Epilogue – My Wings have been Clipped
A propos de l'auteur
Silva Mcleod was born on the small Tongan island of Vava‘u. She married Ken, an Australian, in a traditional Tongan ceremony before moving to Australia. As a woman of colour in Australia in the 1980s, she encountered frustration and racism, along with the guilt of leaving her Tongan family.
Silva had always dreamed of flying and with the encouragement of her husband she braved the barriers to enter the male-dominated field of aviation. She became the first Tongan female airline pilot and worked for the Royal Flying Doctor Service amongst other small airlines then Virgin International, flying B777s around the world.
Silva is a grandmother of seven and wrote Island Girl to Airline Pilot to inspire a new generation to dare to dream, no matter the odds.
Résumé
This is the story of Silva Mcleod, the first Tongan woman to become an airline pilot. Silva tells of the cultural changes she experienced as an island girl who married an Australian, started a family and then pursued her dream of a flying career, all set against the backdrop of the love story of her life with her husband and his battle with cancer.
Préface
A tale of achievement against the odds, of a woman of colour taking flight in a male-dominated industry, and of the love story that inspired her to chase what seemed an impossible dream.
