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The Horror of the Heights (1913) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Horror of the Heights was first published in Strand Magazine in 1913. A fragment of a pilot's journal is found by a farm labourer strewn along the bottom of a ditch on a farm in the south of England. Sussex from memory. In it he details an extraordinary encounter at great altitude in his monoplane. It's a jungle up there, is literally his conclusion. John Singer Sargent's work is not altogether apposite, given the RFC or RAF roundels, and the fact it's a bi-plane, but nonetheless it captures something of the spirit of the Edwardian Icarus. It reminds me very much of some of the aeronautical scenes and ideas in Tono-Bungay by H G Wells, also narrated by me somewhere else, which is his much neglected masterpiece. As always, thanks for listening and all comments welcome.