America from the Air: An Aviator's Story

by Wolfgang Langewiesche

Book Overview

I am no helmeted, begoggled hero of the skies; picture me bookish, bespectacled, unable to hold even a teacup without rattling it. As a pilot, I am merely an amateur, and I know it. . . . I shouldn't be talking. But I can't help talking. For you take the air: the thin, substanceless air that can be made to bear a man; you take America; and you take an airplane, which of all the works of man is the nearest to a living being--you take those things...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801878195
• ISBN13: 9780801878190
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher