Publisher:
Vintage: 2015
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that rem inds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys--and r eawakens our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight--a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity--to the realm of the mundane. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to re...
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