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Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot Hardcover - 2015

by Mark Vanhoenacker


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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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  • Title Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
  • Author Mark Vanhoenacker
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Later prt.
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 2015-06
  • ISBN 9780385351812 / 038535181X
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.9 x 1.3 in (21.59 x 14.99 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Aeronautics, Airplanes - Piloting
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014041159
  • Dewey Decimal Code 629.132

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Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/2015, Page 16
  • Choice, 12/01/2015, Page 0
  • Kirkus Best Nonfiction, 12/01/2015, Page 45
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 04/15/2015, Page 115
  • New York Times Book Review, 07/05/2015, Page 11
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/06/2015, Page 28
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/06/2015, Page 0

About the author

MARK VANHOENACKER is a pilot and writer. A regular contributor to The New York Times and a columnist for Slate, he has also written for Wired, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Independent. Born in Massachusetts, he trained as a historian and worked as a management consultant before starting his flight training in Britain in 2001. His airline career began in 2003. He now flies the Boeing 747 from London to major cities around the world.

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