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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 conclude Michael Bleriot's fascinating Emerald World series of aviation adventures, capping the most original series of flying memoirs in years!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. Searching high and low for bits and pieces of the tropical world around them, the flyers challenge themselves from Guatemala to Bolivia to solve the mystery of a fellow aviator who has been missing for sixty years.An homage to a forgotten slice of U.S. Air Force history, it's flying and story-telling at its best -- with or without your clothes!