A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeysmdashand reawakens our capacity to be amazedThe twenty-first century has relegated airplane flightmdasha once remarkable feat of human ingenuitymdashto the realm of the mundane Mark Vanhoenacker a pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight asks us to reimagine what wemdashboth as pilots and as passengersmdashare 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.
