Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
- ISBN-10
- 0099589850
- ISBN-13
- 9780099589853
- Category
- Aeronautics
- Pages
- 354
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-07-07
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Mark Vanhoenacker
Description
'Flight, like any great love, is both a liberation and a return': an airline pilot captures the wonder of flight for the modern traveller. **Sunday Times Bestseller** **Book of the Week on Radio 4** Think back to when you first flew. When you first left the Earth, and travelled high and fast above its turning arc. When you looked down on a new world, captured simply and perfectly through a window fringed with ice. When you descended towards a city, and arrived from the sky as effortlessly as daybreak. In Skyfaring, airline pilot and flight romantic Mark Vanhoenacker shares his irrepressible love of flying, on a journey from day to night, from new ways of mapmaking and the poetry of physics to the names of winds and the nature of clouds. Here, anew, is the simple wonder that remains at the heart of an experience which modern travellers, armchair and otherwise, all too easily take for granted: the transcendent joy of motion, and the remarkable new perspectives that height and distance bestow on everything we love.
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