Skyfaring
A Journey With a Pilot
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · May 3, 2016
A New York Times Notable Book • "An elegant, nonlinear reflection on how flying on a commercial airliner—even while painfully folded into a seat in coach—can lift the soul.” —The New York Times Book Review In the twenty-first century, airplane flight—once a remarkable feat of human ingenuity—has been relegated to the realm of the mundane.
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- Who it’s for
- A pilot’s wide-ranging reflection makes commercial flight feel strange and astonishing again.
- Genres
- Aviation & Nautical Lives, Aviation, Personal Memoirs
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 3, 2016
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A New York Times Notable Book • "An elegant, nonlinear reflection on how flying on a commercial airliner—even while painfully folded into a seat in coach—can lift the soul.” —The New York Times Book Review In the twenty-first century, airplane flight—once a remarkable feat of human ingenuity—has been relegated to the realm of the mundane.
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In this mesmerizing reflection on flying, Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flying, helps us to reimagine what we—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 and reawakening our capacity to be amazed.
Flight, Reconsidered
A pilot’s wide-ranging reflection makes commercial flight feel strange and astonishing again.
Come here for
- A pilot’s perspective on the wonder hidden in ordinary air travel
- Connections among flight, geography, history, weather, and physics
Expect
- An essayistic journey across the worlds flight touches
- A blend of personal perspective and ideas spanning science, culture, and nature
Where it sits
| Aviation & Nautical Lives | 62% |
|---|---|
| Personal Memoirs | 33% |
| Aviation | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Natural History
- Aviation
- Adventure Travel
- Authors
- Mark Vanhoenacker
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- May 3, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Natural History