An upcoming University of Nebraska Press title made the Smithsonian blog, The Daily Planet, today.

An excerpt of Never Land: Adventures, Wonder, and One World Record in a Very Small Plane (it's so new, we don't even have a link to it on our Web site yet), by Scott Olsen was posted on the blog today. Never Land is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press in spring 2010, and Olsen is notable in that he holds the world record for the fastest flight across North Dakota. Even more impressive: he set this record in “an airplane often passed by cars on the highway.”

To find out how, visit The Daily Planet blog.