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Item Details
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UNLEARNING TO FLY
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| By: |
Jennifer Brice |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£20.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0803210949 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780803210943 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
13 August, 2007 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
A 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. |
| 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. |
| Illustrations: |
1 formula |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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