Skyfaring : a journey with a pilot
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
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9780385351812, 038535181X
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format
Book
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xi, 352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780385351812, 038535181X

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"The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight--a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity--to the realm of the mundane. When most people today think of flying, they imagine tedious routines that involve security checkpoints, exorbitant baggage fees, shrinking legroom, and frustrating delays. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who gave up careers in academia and the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to re-imagine 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, the author vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries, above mountains, oceans, and deserts, through snow, wind, and rain, limning a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity which can afford us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form"--,Provided by publisher.

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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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