Unlearning to Fly
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780803210943 |
Publisher: | UNP - Nebraska |
Imprint: | University of Nebraska Press |
Pub date: | 13 Aug 2007 |
DEWEY: | 979.804092 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Weight: | 417g |
Height: | 223mm |
Width: | 148mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |