How Craig Dobbin Built the World's Largest Helicopter Company — John Lawrence Reynolds — Signed First Edition — Douglas & McIntyre, 2008
One Hell of a Ride tells the story of Craig Laurence Dobbin, the irrepressible Newfoundland entrepreneur who built CHC Helicopter Corporation into the largest helicopter operation in the world. Dobbin's path ran from near-drowning while salvaging shipwrecks in St. John's harbour, through real estate ventures, to a single helicopter bought for salmon fishing that grew, within a decade, into a public corporation earning hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Along the way he survived a near-fatal helicopter crash and a lung transplant, counted prime ministers and U.S. presidents among his friends, and remained, in the words of one colleague, a man who had "more fun in a week than most people enjoy in a year."
Author John Lawrence Reynolds is a National Business Book Award winner and two-time Arthur Ellis Award recipient. This copy is signed and personally inscribed by Reynolds on the half-title page: "Nigel, Enjoy! He was a great man as you know!!"
VG. Small tear at the top of the spine on the dust jacket. Boards and pages clean. Binding tight.
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