Skyfaring

A mesmerizing reflection on the art of airplane flight from the perspective of a 747 pilot. Mark Vanhoenacker helps readers reimagine what pilots and passengers are actually doing when flying, in a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics. He takes readers above mountains, oceans, and deserts through snow, wind, and rain, renewing a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity and reawakening our capacity to be amazed.