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Skyfaring : a journey with a pilot
Aviation skils / pilpring. 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. 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 is the simple wonder that remains at the heart of an experience which modern travellers 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. \"Mark Vanhoenacker has written the ideal book: a description of what it's like to fly by a commercial pilot who is also a master prose stylist and a deeply sensitive human being.
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Skyfaring : a journey with a pilot
In the twenty-first century, airplane flight once a remarkable feat of human ingenuity has been relegated to the realm of the mundane. In this mesmerizing reflection on flying, Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flying, helps us to reimagine what we 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, physics, Vanhoenacker vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries; above mountains, oceans, and deserts through snow, wind, and rain, renewing a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity and reawakening out capacity to be amazed. --Page [4] of cover.
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Imagine a city : a pilot's journey across the urban world
\"A pilot's world travels, from the author of Skyfaring\"-- Provided by publisher.
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