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A New York Times Notable Book A Best Book of the Year San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • GQ • Kirkus Reviews“Superb. . . . An elegant, nonlinear reflection on how flying on a commercial airliner—even while painfully folded into a seat in coach—can lift the soul.” —The New York Times Book Review“A beautifully observed collection of details, scenes, emotions and facts from the world above the world.” —The Economist   “Remarkable. . . . [Skyfaring] lifts the thoughts and spirits.” —James Fallows, The Atlantic“Marvelously literate. . . . Vanhoenacker . . . can put one in mind of Henry James. . . . A big-hearted book.” —The New York Times   “Gorgeous and captivating. . . . Skyfaring artfully demystifies the fascinating technical aspects of commercial flight while delivering poetic insights straight from the cockpit.” —San Francisco Chronicle“Masterly, beautifully written.” —The Times Literary Supplement   “[Vanhoenacker is] an exceptionally lucid and philosophically minded writer.” —The Wall Street Journal   “Not since Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic Vol de Nuit . . . has there been such a fantastic book about flying. . . . Skyfaring takes the genre to a whole new level.” —Condé Nast Traveller   “Imagine Henry David Thoreau reflecting on the wonders of the lights of Oman as seen from the cockpit of a 747, and you begin to have something of the fresh magic of this exceptional debut.” —Pico Iyer, author of The Man Within My Head   “Riveting. . . . Vanhoenacker paints humanity seen from the aviator’s perch, woven together with a fascinating layman’s account of the mechanics of flight. . . . [He] invokes philosophers, music, history, and his own past and family to convey the sense of discovery and disorientation that he feels crisscrossing the globe.” —The Times (London)   “A love letter to flight. . . . Vanhoenacker slips easily between poetic meditation into the nature of travel and technical explanations of the mechanisms of the 747, and I found all of it fascinating. It is a delight to encounter someone so unabashedly enamored of the romance of his profession.” —Emily St. John Mandel, The Millions   “[A] revelatory work of observation, thought, and expression.” —James Fallows, author of China Airborne   “Flying, a century after Kitty Hawk, can seem both scary and banal, the realm of underwear bombers and miniature mouthwashes, but Vanhoenacker recovers its metaphysics.” —The New Yorker   “Vanhoenacker’s passionate and beautifully written book will remind even the most jaded traveller of the wonder of flight.” —The Sunday Times (UK)   “A masterpiece of time, distance, palm trees, frosty mornings, lofty ambition and self-effacing charm.” —Monocle   “A 747 pilot with a poetic streak. . . . The writing makes flying feel as amazing at it really is.” —Wired.com   “A description of what it’s like to fly by a commercial pilot who is also a master prose stylist and a deeply sensitive human being. . . . This couldn’t be more highly recommended.” —Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your Life   “Vanhoenacker makes [flying] wondrous again.” —London Evening Standard   “[Skyfaring] never loses sight of how beautiful it is to soar above the clouds. . . . [Vanhoenacker’s] writing is fluid and elegant.” —The New Statesman (UK)   “An author of real distinction with a genuinely poetic sensibility as well as a memorable turn of phrase.” —The Spectator   “Vanhoenacker makes [flying] wondrous again.” —London Evening Standard   “A skilful meditation on the glories of traversing the earth at the helm of mankind’s greatest technological achievement. . . . You’ll quickly find yourself in thrall to Vanhoenacker’s marvellous prose.” —GQ (UK)   “Through prose as passionate and erudite as it is informative, [Vanhoenacker] describes not merely the mechanical workings of flight, but will rekindle, in those who care to listen, a lost appreciation for the marvel of global air travel.” —Patrick Smith, author of Cockpit Confidential

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About the Author

Mark Vanhoenacker is a pilot and writer. A regular contributor to The New York Times and Slate, he has also written for Wired, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Independent. Born in Massachusetts, he trained as a historian and worked as a management consultant before starting his flight training in Britain in 2001. His airline career began in 2003. He now flies the Boeing 747 from London to major cities around the world.

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Product details

Series: Vintage Departures

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (May 3, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780804169714

ISBN-13: 978-0804169714

ASIN: 0804169713

Product Dimensions:

5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.4 out of 5 stars

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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#83,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Okay, you know who you are. You're the passenger who always chooses a window seat, so you can gaze out during the flight, looking on as the world on the ground passes smoothly beneath you. Maybe you like traveling at night, so you can see the lights of cities large and small twinkling below, reminding you that the world is a series of lights. Maybe you wish the inflight entertainment monitors would show the takeoffs and landings so you could see what the pilots can see. And even though you might find it difficult to put yourself completely in the hands of those at the airplane's controls, you love to fly. It's for those fliers - and I'm including myself - that Mark Vanhoenacker has written "Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot".Mark Vanhoenacker is American born and raised and is pilot with British Airways. Now in his 40's, he took up piloting somewhat later in life than most; he didn't become a commercial pilot until he was 29. But he had always loved flying and airplanes and traveling, and had known from an early age that he wanted to fly commercially. Vanhoenacker has flown two plane types in his career; an Airbus which flew the "short" routes in and out of London, and the 747, the plane for long flights. London to Tokyo, London to Cape Town, London to Mumbai, to name a few."Skyfaring" is not a conventional book about flying airplanes. Vanhoenacker takes the reader on voyages through the air while talking about both the mundane and the magic of flying. Dividing the book into a series of chapter, some of which are "Lift", "Water", "Encounters", and "Return", the author takes the reader up in the air with him. "Encounters" is about the connections - both personal and job-related - that Vanhoenacker makes while flying. It's one of the best chapters because he talks about meeting old friends on planes and on layovers, and making new ones who he will see...whenever. He also makes the comparison between travel by water and travel by air. Many of the terms of both ships and airplanes are similar. Even "souls" - who are generally referred to when a plane crashes or a ship sinks - is used in the same way.But most of what Mark Vanhoenacker writes about is the "magic" of piloting a huge plane full of people, whether traveling for business or pleasure. So, if you've ever sat in your seat in a plane and wondered if the guy flying it has the same feeling of wonderment you have, yes, he probably does.This is one of the best work of non-fiction I've read this year. Buy it and savor it.

As an aircraft freak I am biased about any book on aviation, particularly one by a B747 long haul pilot and although this book may not appeal to everyone, I loved it. There were times when I would have preferred more technical details about how things worked rather than the poetic descriptions of what the clouds and rivers look like from 37,000 feet, but this is probably being picky. There were also some of the descriptions that reminded me of Australian author/pilot Owen Zupp. So if you take my aviation freak bias into consideration, it is a book that I wholeheartedly recommend.

I don't usually do reviews, but this was truly an extraordinary book and absolutely well worth the time. I have always loved aircraft and although I have never flown a plane, was, for a time, an avid flight sim enthusiast. I don't fly/travel much, sadly, just a yearly trip to the west coast. What stood out to me was the many times, many many times, I said to myself "gee, I have felt the exact same way as the author" regardless of the many topics, his excellent exposition resonated with me !000%. His sense of awe looking at the planet below and descriptions of the mountains, deserts, oceans, populated areas (few and far between) was quite moving. When I was finished with the book, I was sad because it was done ... even though he told a complete (IMHO) story ... I wanted to continue reading .... YES, it was that WELL WRITTEN and very ENJOYABLE. I would recommend this book to you without reservation .... you'll be very very happy you read it, regardless of your interest in aviation or flying.

Essential reading for a certain kind of person. I'm an engineer that works on global networks. I fly over 100k a year. I long ago passed 1M miles in the air. I struggle to explain to people what it means to exist , literally, at some point, every place on earth. If not on it, over it.Mark Vanhoenacker does this in a remarkably observant and emotional way. Few of us will ever pilot a long haul 747, but a lot of us will sit in the passenger cabin. Spend, cumulatively, years, around the globe, and come to know the planet and it's people as one place.I used to think being in the ISS (International Space Station) was the way to see Earth as a whole, but it's really flying at 35,000 ft and being on the ground that accomplishes that. Some nights I fall asleep thinking about what everyone I know is doing, across 24 time zones, and it's a joy: Good night world. Good night everyone. This is a beautiful world we live in.I would be hard pressed to express this to anyone, but Mr Mark Vanhoenacker does this

If you enjoyed "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky, you may enjoy Skyfaring. This is both a testament to the author's skill and the reason you may end up abandoning the book after the first couple of chapters. This book is not so much about aviation as about the author. Most of the prose is dedicated to his personal experience... not even flying, but living: the childhood memories, his sense of time, place, purpose of life and so on.As other reviewers have noticed, there is very little about technical aspects of flying, although some random bits are unexpectedly well covered in great detail, comparable even to textbooks: for example he goes into explaining indicated vs actual airspeed.I actually managed to read all of it, but not because I was enjoying the endless self-reflection of the author, but because I was looking for a specific answer to the obvious question of how did he manage to become a major airline pilot so quickly and so late in life? There are myriads of private pilots with multiple ratings racking up their CFL hours in hopes of joining a regional airline some day, but in his case it was more like "I decided to become a pilot at 26 and here I am flying a jet on international routes 4 years later". Perhaps the job market for pilots was better in the UK in 2004?

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