bokomslag Unlearning to Fly
Memoarer & biografier

Unlearning to Fly

Jennifer Brice

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  • 224 sidor
  • 2007
"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.
  • Författare: Jennifer Brice
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780803210943
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-09-01
  • Förlag: University of Nebraska Press