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Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker (Hardcover, 2015)

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**Sunday Times Besteller** **Book of the Week on Radio 4** '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 th

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Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780701188665
eBay Product ID (ePID)
212736972

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Book Title
Skyfaring: a Journey with a Pilot
Author
Mark Vanhoenacker
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Aircraft, Travel Writing
Publication Year
2015
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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222mm
Item Width
144mm
Item Weight
494g

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Mark Vanhoenacker
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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by mambosnake01 Jan, 2019
Just begun it.
I bought this as someone else's reading group choice. Personally, I probably would not have chosen it. I've only just begun it but it is not really capturing me. I shall persevere!
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by oceanair5720 Jun, 2018
Skyfaring: a journey with a pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker (Hardback)
Well writen book, shades of Richard Bach. Very interesting and discriptive senarios. Recommended for anyone who loves flying and the skies.
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by gibson2gary21 Aug, 2022
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Takes a dreamer into the dream.
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