MARK VANHOENACKER is a pilot and writer. A regular contributor to The New York Times and a columnist for Slate, he has also written for Wired, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Independent. Born in Massachusetts, he trained as a historian and worked as a management consultant before starting his flight training in Britain in 2001. His airline career began in 2003. He now flies the Boeing 747 from London to major cities around the world.
发表于2024-11-26
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图书标签: 飞行 随笔 英语 文学 航空 科技 生活 英文原版
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.
这就是文理兼俱,雌雄同体的作者啊。。。推荐看英文原版,原来英语也能写出这么美的句子。另外,在作者眼里北京火车站居然和阿姆斯特丹的骑行步道、新加坡的公共绿化、赫尔辛基的室外游泳池、温哥华的出租车司机一样美好。。。
评分这就是文理兼俱,雌雄同体的作者啊。。。推荐看英文原版,原来英语也能写出这么美的句子。另外,在作者眼里北京火车站居然和阿姆斯特丹的骑行步道、新加坡的公共绿化、赫尔辛基的室外游泳池、温哥华的出租车司机一样美好。。。
评分(长途)飞行是一件格外美好的事情 不过读着读着觉得有点秀优越+炫文笔了 微微浮躁 优良可读的咖啡桌读物
评分我們都忘了飛行, 這是一件多麼不可思議及美好的事情. Bravo!
评分这就是文理兼俱,雌雄同体的作者啊。。。推荐看英文原版,原来英语也能写出这么美的句子。另外,在作者眼里北京火车站居然和阿姆斯特丹的骑行步道、新加坡的公共绿化、赫尔辛基的室外游泳池、温哥华的出租车司机一样美好。。。
Skyfaring 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书