Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot

by Vanhoenacker, Mark
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ISBN: 9780804169714
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One of the Best Books of the Year
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In the twenty-first century, airplane flight-- once a remarkable feat of human ingenuity--has been relegated to the realm of the mundane. In this mesmerizing reflection on flying, Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flying, helps us to reimagine what we--as pilots and as passengers--are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, Vanhoenacker vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries; above mountains, oceans, and deserts; through snow, wind, and rain, renewing a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity and reawakening our capacity to be amazed.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Vanhoenacker, Mark
  • ISBN: 9780804169714
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.90 x 0.90
  • Number Of Pages: 368
  • Publication Year: 2016

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