Skyfaring : a journey with a pilot
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Knopf, 2015.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780385351812 (hardback), 038535181X (hardback)
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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Published
New York : Knopf, 2015.
Language
English
ISBN
9780385351812 (hardback), 038535181X (hardback)
Notes
General Note
Maps on endpapers.
General Note
"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Description
"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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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 629.13 VAN | Available |
Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Nonfiction | 629.13252 | Available |
Hunterdon North County Branch - Adult Nonfiction | 629.13252 | Available |
Jefferson Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 629.13 VAN | Available |
Morris County Library - Adult Nonfiction | 629.13 VAN | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Vanhoenacker, M. (2015). Skyfaring: a journey with a pilot . Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vanhoenacker, Mark. 2015. Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vanhoenacker, Mark. Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot Knopf, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Vanhoenacker, Mark. Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot Knopf, 2015.
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