| Edition |
First United States edition |
| Description |
352 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight--a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity--to the realm of the mundane. When most people today think of flying, they imagine tedious routines that involve security checkpoints, exorbitant baggage fees, shrinking legroom, and frustrating delays. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who gave up careers in academia and the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to re-imagine what we--both 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, the author vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries, above mountains, oceans, and deserts, through snow, wind, and rain, limning a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity which can afford us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Airplanes -- Piloting -- Popular works.
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Aeronautics -- Popular works.
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TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / General.
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TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure.
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| ISBN |
9780385351812 (hardback) |
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038535181X (hardback) |
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9780385351829 (ebook) |
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