SKYFARING SIGNED A Journey with a Pilot

Mark Vanhoenacker

ISBN 10: 0701188669 / ISBN 13: 9780701188665

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 2015

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Fine in a Fine dust jacket. ; Signed by author on title page. ; 8.8 X 5.8 X 1.5 inches; 352 pages; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SKYFARING SIGNED A Journey with a Pilot
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701188669
• ISBN 13: 9780701188665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

'Flight, like any great love, is both a liberation and a return': an airline pilot captures the wonder of flight for the modern traveller.

     "One of the most constantly fascinating, but consistently under-appreciated aspects of modern life is the business of flying. Mark Vanhoenacker has written the ideal book on the subject: a description of what it's like to fly by a commercial pilot who is also a master prose stylist and a deeply sensitive human being. This is a man who is at once a technical expert - he flies 747s across continents -- and a poet of the skies. This couldn't be more highly recommended." --Alain de Botton

     Think back to when you first flew. When you first left the Earth, and travelled high and fast above its turning arc. When you looked down on a new world, captured simply and perfectly through a window fringed with ice. When you descended towards a city, and arrived from the sky as effortlessly as daybreak.

     In Skyfaring, airline pilot and flight romantic Mark Vanhoenacker shares his irrepressible love of flying, on a journey from day to night, from new ways of mapmaking and the poetry of physics to the names of winds and the nature of clouds. Here, anew, is the simple wonder that remains at the heart of an experience which modern travellers, armchair and otherwise, all too easily take for granted: the transcendent joy of motion, and the remarkable new perspectives that height and distance bestow on everything we love. 

   • Sunday Times Bestseller 

   • Book of the Week on Radio 4

About the Author

MARK VANHOENACKER left academia to work as a management consultant, a position that afforded him regular opportunities to stare out of airplane windows and recall childhood dreams of becoming a pilot. He began his flight training in 2001. Today, as a Senior First Officer for British Airways, Mark flies Boeing 747s to major cities around the world. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Times and a columnist for Slate. When his head is not in the clouds, he divides his time between London and New York.