Mark Vanhoenacker has written a beautiful, contemplative book that reveals nature’s wonders and reassures nervous flyers
As I write, the weather is lousy and the political climate no better. These conditions may change, but, as this book reminds us: above the clouds the skies will always be clear. What Skyfaring gives is something we need: elevation; another perspective.
Mark Vanhoenacker is a pilot of 747s for British Airways. He came relatively late to flying, despite a lifelong love of aeroplanes, and on the way picked up a prose style considerably more poetic than the clipped, laconic remarks we usually hear from the cockpit.
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