View Form the Air Charles Lindbergh's Earth and Sky

Lindbergh, Reeve

ISBN 10: 0140548181 / ISBN 13: 9780140548181

Published by Puffin, New York, 1992

About this Item

Charles Lindbergh's daughter Reeve writes about his love and concern for the natural world. A Picture Puffin, 31 pages; 9 x 7 ".

Seller Inventory # 35382

Bibliographic Details

• Title: View Form the Air Charles Lindbergh's Earth and Sky
• Publisher: Puffin, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140548181
• ISBN 13: 9780140548181
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Illustrated by Brown, Richard (photos)
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Childrens

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Synopsis

A pilot's perspective provides an enlightening view of man's impact on the Earth

From Publishers Weekly

As a tribute to her late father's "great love and concern for the natural world," author Lindbergh ( The Midnight Farm ) imagines and gives voice to the aviator's thoughts as he flies over the land he cherishes. Written as a poem, her words are accompanied by a series of aerial photographs taken in the early 1970s when the elder Lindbergh flew a young nature photographer over northern New England. Brown's sweeping images celebrate the grace and dignity of the landscape in colorful detail: a sun-dappled church; a cluster of red farm buildings blanketed in snow; the blazing colors of autumn foliage. Unfortunately, the presentation of this laudable undertaking seems to distance the reader from Charles Lindbergh's voice. Also, the rigorous meter of Lindbergh's occasionally heavy-handed verse ("Earth can still heal and recover / Given our time and our care. / Some things have vanished forever / But earth will remain, and repair.") clashes with the grandeur and power of the photographs. All ages.
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