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100	1		_aVanhoenacker, Mark.
245	1	0	_aSkyfaring : _ba journey with a pilot / _cMark Vanhoenacker.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2015.
300			_axi, 352 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAirplanes _xPiloting _vPopular works.
650		0	_aAeronautics _vPopular works.
650		7	_aTRANSPORTATION / Aviation / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aTRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure. _2bisacsh
856	4	2	_3Cover image _u9780385351812.jpg
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