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Skyfaring: A Journey With A Pilot
Sunday Times BestsellerBook of the Week on Radio 4 'A beautiful book about a part of the modern world which remains genuinely magical' Mark Haddon'One of the most constantly fascinating but consistently under-appreciated aspects of modern life is the business of flying Mark Vanhoenacker has written the ideal book on the subject 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 This is a man who is at once a technical expert - he flies 747s across continents - and a poet of the skies This couldn't be more highly recommended' Alain de BottonThink 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 granted the transcendent joy of motion and the remarkable new perspectives that height and distance bestow on everything we love A beautiful contemplative book What Skyfaring gives is something we need elevation; another perspective Normally when I find a volume where prose style and
subject matter fuse so pleasingly I tear through it in a day Here I found myself pausing on almost every page as I absorbed its detail or phrasing' Nicholas Lezard GuardianA 2015 Book of the Year - The Economist The New York Times GQ and more
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 granted the transcendent joy of motion and the remarkable new perspectives that height and distance bestow on everything we love A beautiful contemplative book What Skyfaring gives is something we need elevation; another perspective Normally when I find a volume where prose style and
subject matter fuse so pleasingly I tear through it in a day Here I found myself pausing on almost every page as I absorbed its detail or phrasing' Nicholas Lezard GuardianA 2015 Book of the Year - The Economist The New York Times GQ and more
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