Skyfaring by Mark Vanhoenacker

Skyfaring by Mark Vanhoenacker

A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys--and reawakens our capacity to be amazed.

The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight--a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity--to the realm of the mundane. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to reimagine 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, 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 that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form.

MARK VANHOENACKER (b.1974) is a dual citizen of Belgium and the United States. A graduate of Amherst College, he took an M.Phil. in History at the University of Cambridge. Mark worked 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. In 2001, Mark began his flight training. He operated his first commercial flight in 2003, from London to Glasgow, though sadly he was not permitted to tell the passengers it was his first day on the job. He currently flies Boeing 747s to nearly every major city in the world. Mark is a regular contributor to the New York Times and a columnist for Slate. When not in the air, Mark is based in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780804169714
ISBN 10	0804169713
Title	Skyfaring
Author	Mark Vanhoenacker
Series	Vintage Departures
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2016-05-03
Number of pages	368
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