Skyfaring

Skyfaring
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780701188672
ISBN-13 : 0701188677
Rating : 4/5 (677 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Skyfaring by : Mark Vanhoenacker

Download or read book Skyfaring written by Mark Vanhoenacker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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