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Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot
Mark Vanhoenacker ALFRED A KNOPF (2015)
Rating: ★★★★★ 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.
This Is a Borzoi BookPublished by Alfred A. KnopfCopyright © 2015 Mark VanhoenackerAll rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, a Penguin Random House company, London, in 2015.www.aaknopf.comKnopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.This page constitutes an extension of the copyright page.Two brief quotes are adapted from “With This View, Who Needs Legroom?” which appeared on NYTimes.com (March 20, 2010).Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataVanhoenacker, Mark.Skyfaring : a journey with a pilot / Mark Vanhoenacker.pages cmISBN 978-0-385-35181-2 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-385-35182-9 (eBook)1. Airplanes—Piloting—Popular works. 2. Aeronautics—Popular works. I. Title. TL710.V345 2015629.132'52—dc23 2014041159eBook ISBN 9780385351829Cover photograph by Carolyn Marks BlackwoodCover design by Carol Devine Carsonv4.1ep
ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyrightDedicationEpigraphAuthor’s NoteLiftPlaceWayfindingMachineAirWaterEncountersNightReturnAcknowledgmentsPermissions AcknowledgmentsA Note About the Author
For Lois and Mark, and in memory of my parents
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