Unlearning to Fly by Jennifer Brice
"Unlearning to Fly" is the memoir of a bookworm growing up in Alaska - among people whose resilience, restlessness, and energy find their highest expression in winter ascents of Mount McKinley or first descents of wild rivers. These are the flying stories of a fearful pilot, one who admires but does not emulate the more daring exploits of her father and her friends. The accounts of Jennifer Brice - at times poignant, funny, and downright nerve-racking - are engaging recollections of deadly, near-deadly, and occasionally comic encounters between human nature and Nature writ large. The unlikely romance between her parents, the Good Friday earthquake, the Alaska oil boom, a stint as a newspaper reporter, and the trials of a student pilot form a few chapters in Brice's remarkable life. These are the stories in which the physics and metaphors of flight - center of gravity, angle of attack, wake turbulence - illuminate Brice's remarkable life story, recounted in prose that takes wing.
"Unlearning to Fly is taut and well-paced, engaging and stunningly visual, original and wiseThis is a voice and a story we have not heard before." Natalia Rachel Inger, author of Scraping by in the Big Eighties "There is a rigorous mind and a humane spirit behind these essays. Ms. Brice has a way of dignifying not only her own life but also the lives of other people, elevating even the most ordinary life and making it worthy of our attention." Carrie Brown, author of Roses's Garden
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| ISBN 13 | 9780803210943 |
| ISBN 10 | 0803210949 |
| Title | Unlearning to Fly |
| Author | Jennifer Brice |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Year published | 2007-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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