Flying brought to life, poetry in motion.
Skyfaring is a book for those who love to travel and dream of flying. The book offers a new perspective on the world, seen from high above. Vanhoenacker expertly weaves together technical knowledge of flying with poetic prose that captures the wonder and beauty of being up in the sky. It's a beautiful and contemplative book that will make you look at flying in a whole new way.
ISBN: 9780099589853
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: RM77.37 MYR
Authors:
Mark Vanhoenacker
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date of Publication: 2016-08-23
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.95
(rated by 3585 readers)
Description
'Flight, like any great love, is both a liberation and a return': an airline pilot captures the wonder of flight for the modern traveller.** Sunday Times Bestseller** **Book of the Week on Radio 4**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. When you descended towards a city, and arrived from the sky as effortlessly as daybreak.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, anew, is the simple wonder that remains at the heart of an experience which modern travellers, armchair and otherwise, all too easily take for the transcendent joy of motion, and the remarkable new perspectives that height and distance bestow on everything we love.
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