“W. Scott Olsen is that dreamy hybrid of poet, pilot, and humorist. If weather has cancelled your flight plan, curl up with Never Land. It’s the next best thing to flying you’ll find.”—Patricia Trenner, senior editor of Air & Space / Smithsonian
“Never Land is a heartfelt and thoughtful and smart examination of what’s for some of us ‘the necessity and the reach of flying,’ and of what happens when you mix America and the air and an airplane. Scott Olsen with an engaging sweetness and acuity of observation deftly combines a sense of history and a sense of place with an introduction to the gratifications of flying a small plane, and the ways in which, when we’re doing something so fully that it seems like it’s its own reward, our definition of who and where we are can gloriously enlarge itself.”—Jim Shepard, author of Like You’d Understand, Anyway
“At times poignant, at other times funny, as often frightening as it is deeply personal, Never Land is a fine evocation of the beauty of the American prairie and a flyer’s unique perspective. W. Scott Olsen has written a wonderful book about flying.”—Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), pilot
"At once frankly philosophical and engagingly practical, the book combines accounts of touring the air, the history of flight, the sensations of flying, and the technical acts and facts of navigating, piloting, lifting off, and landing."—Pacific Flyer
"This little book is for all the lucky people who ever flew an aircraft, and, for everyone who ever dreamed of flying one. . . . If words can capture this controlled life into sky—this safely flying toward the infinite—Olsen's book does it."—Dave Remley, Glenwood Gazette
