Aloft
  • Published: 31 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141191850
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $38.00

Aloft

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25 Feb 2010
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31 Mar 2010
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An insightful and poetic reflection on the first century of flight from a writer at the height of his powers

In the essays collected here William Langewiesche considers how flying has altered not only how we move about the earth, but also how we view our world and our place in it. With vivid descriptions of the aesthetics and excitement of flight, Langewiesche also writes of the risks that go with this beauty: the perils of air traffic control, and the dangers of nervous passengers and bad weather.

Full of spare and elegant prose, Aloft is a fascinating journey into the new, profound dimension that flight has added to the human experience.
  • Published: 31 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141191850
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

William Langewiesche

William Langewiesche is the author of five previous books, Cutting for Sign, Sahara Unveiled, Inside the Sky, American Ground and, most recently, The Outlaw Sea. He is currently International Correspondent for Vanity Fair, and was for years a national correspondent for Atlantic Monthly.

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Praise for Aloft

Formidable talent ... a journalist whose cool, precise and economical reporting is harnessed to an invigorating moral and intellectual perspective

The New York Times