Unlearning to Fly - Couverture rigide

Brice, Jennifer

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0803210949 ISBN 13 : 9780803210943

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2007

Synopsis

"Unlearning to Fly" is the memoir of a bookworm growing up in Alaska - among people whose resilience, restlessness, and energy find their highest expression in winter ascents of Mount McKinley or first descents of wild rivers. These are the flying stories of a fearful pilot, one who admires but does not emulate the more daring exploits of her father and her friends. The accounts of Jennifer Brice - at times poignant, funny, and downright nerve-racking - are engaging recollections of deadly, near-deadly, and occasionally comic encounters between human nature and Nature writ large. The unlikely romance between her parents, the Good Friday earthquake, the Alaska oil boom, a stint as a newspaper reporter, and the trials of a student pilot form a few chapters in Brice's remarkable life. These are the stories in which the physics and metaphors of flight - center of gravity, angle of attack, wake turbulence - illuminate Brice's remarkable life story, recounted in prose that takes wing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803210949
• ISBN 13: 9780803210943
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible