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A New York Times Notable Book An elegant, nonlinear reflection on how flying on a commercial airlinereven while painfully folded into a seat in coachcan lift the soul. The New York Times Book Review

In the twenty-first century, airplane flightonce a remarkable feat of human ingenuityhas been relegated to the realm of the mundane. 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 weas pilots and as passengersare 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.

Author: Mark Vanhoenacker
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/03/2016
Series: Vintage Departures
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780804169714
Language: English