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.
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.
發表於2024-12-23
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圖書標籤: 飛行 隨筆 英語 文學 航空 科技 生活 英文原版
試譯愉快~
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評分我們都忘瞭飛行, 這是一件多麼不可思議及美好的事情. Bravo!
評分(長途)飛行是一件格外美好的事情 不過讀著讀著覺得有點秀優越+炫文筆瞭 微微浮躁 優良可讀的咖啡桌讀物
評分(長途)飛行是一件格外美好的事情 不過讀著讀著覺得有點秀優越+炫文筆瞭 微微浮躁 優良可讀的咖啡桌讀物
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