Airportness: The Nature of Flight

by Christopher Schaberg

Book Overview

Airportness takes the reader on a single day's journey through all the routines and stages of an ordinary flight. From curbside to baggage, and pondering the minutes and hours of sitting in between, Christopher Schaberg contemplates the mundane world of commercial aviation to discover "the nature of flight." For Schaberg this means hearing planes in the sky, recognizing airline symbols in unlikely places, and navigating the various zones of transit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501325698
• ISBN13: 9781501325694
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.7"