More non-fiction from yours truly ...
In the old days (pre-World War II) air travel between England and Australia took 14 days, including 35 airports in 17 countries. In the mid-80's, Alexander Frater re-traces that route in his book
Beyond the Blue Horizon: on the track of Imperial Airways, my current library book (all 430 hardcover pages of it!).
If you're at all interested in travel narrative, I can highly recommend two of his books that might be easier
to obtain:
Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics and
Chasing the Monsoon: A Modern Pilgrimage Through India.
For an e-book, I've started
The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time. A strange, though compelling, story ... and author!