Skyfaring : a journey with a pilot
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
629.132 VANHO
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629.132 VANHO
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Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
629.132 VANHO
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629.132 VANHO
1 available
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Central - Adult Nonfiction | 629.132 VANHO | Available |
Central - Adult Nonfiction | 629.132 VANHO | Available |
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction | 629.132 VANHO | Available |
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (Acknowledgments).
Description
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 reawakens 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 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, 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 that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Vanhoenacker, M. (2015). Skyfaring: a journey with a pilot . Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vanhoenacker, Mark. 2015. Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vanhoenacker, Mark. Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Vanhoenacker, Mark. Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
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