Airline pilot, broadcaster, sailor, speaker, and now author, Captain Russ Roberts is not so much an adventurer as a lifetime collector of experiences and stories.

Roberts flew the Atlantic alone in single-engine airplanes, sailed the Northwest Passage over the Canadian arctic, helped blow up his boyhood backyard with dynamite, was the youngest licensed flight instructor in America, shared a VW with a moose, and commanded airliners around the world.

In his first book, "Unlearning to Fly: Navigating the Turbulence and Bliss of Growing Up in the Sky," Russ Roberts tells a heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking story of how airplanes were the golden thread that secured an otherwise turbulent start to life.