Bibliograph

Skyfaring, a journey with a pilot, Mark Vanhoenacker

Type

Label

Skyfaring, a journey with a pilot, Mark Vanhoenacker

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Skyfaring

Oclc number

900608738

Responsibility statement

Mark Vanhoenacker

Sub title

a journey with a pilot

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"--Jacket

Table Of Contents

Lift -- Place -- Wayfinding -- Machine -- Air -- Water -- Encounters -- Night -- Return

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