Tracey Curtis-Taylor is renowned as one of Britain's foremost women-adventurers, but she had to fight against the odds to make her dreams come true. Paying homage to two historic female aviators, she made headlines all over the world with three epic flights in a 1942 Boeing Stearman biplane, from Cape Town to Goodwood in 2013, from London to Australia in 2015 and, two years later, across the USA, surviving a plane crash during the expedition.

But it didn't come easy. With searing honesty and breathtaking detail, Bird tells the remarkable personal story of how she overcame extreme adversity to complete her three remarkable journeys. From cheating death twice and saving her crew from a firing squad to overcoming a bitter campaign waged by a male-dominated aviation.