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PDF DOWNLOAD Online PDF Skyfaring: A Journey With A Pilot Full Pages Details Details Product: A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys and renews 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. 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 reimagine 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 that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form. Author: Mark Vanhoenacker Language: English Format: PDF / EPUB / MOBI E-Books are now available on this website Works on PC, iPad, Android, iOS, Tablet, MAC) THE BEST & MORE SELLER Discover a new world at your fingertips with our wide selection of books online. Our online bookstore features the latest books, eBooks and audio books from best-selling authors, so you can click through our aisles to browse titles & genres that make jaws fall in love with adults, teens and children. Find the perfect book for you today
PDF DOWNLOAD Online PDF Skyfaring: A Journey With A Pilot Full Pages Details
Details Product: A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys and renews 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. 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 reimagine 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 that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form.
Author: Mark Vanhoenacker
Language: English
Format: PDF / EPUB / MOBI
E-Books are now available on this website
Works on PC, iPad, Android, iOS, Tablet, MAC)
THE BEST & MORE SELLER
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With A Pilot Full Online
A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of
the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys and renews 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. 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 reimagine 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 that affords us
unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form.
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