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Mark Vanhoenacker - Imagine a City (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Subtitled : A Pilot Sees The World.
A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2022.
Growing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the illuminated globe in his bedroom and dreamt of elsewhere - of distant, real cities, and a perfect metropolis that existed only in his imagination. These places were sources of endless fascination and escape: streets unspooled, towers shone, and anonymous crowds bustled in cities where Mark could be anyone - perhaps even himself.
Now, as a commercial airline pilot, Mark has spent nearly two decades crossing the skies of our planet, touching down in the cities he imagined as a child. He experiences these metropolises in short layover visits that repeat month after month and year after year, giving him a unique perspective on the places that form our urban world.
Interweaving travelogue with memoir, Mark celebrates the cities he has come to know and love through the lens of the hometown his heart has never left. Exploring the emblematic facets of each city's identity - the sweeping roads of Los Angeles, the old gates of Jeddah, the intricate, dream-inspired plan of Brasília - he shows us with warmth and fresh eyes the extraordinary places that billions of us call home.
Details
- Format : Slightly Larger 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : As New
- Category : Non-Fiction - Travel & Guidebooks
- Published : 2022 (Chatto & Windus)
- ISBN : 9781784743260
- SKU : B003300
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : £14.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
''A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' - Alain De Botton.
'A moving account of personal unbelonging' - The Times.
'Vanhoenacker . . . has a near-bottomless appetite for fresh sights and guidebook curiosities . . . Intimate and thoughtful' - Pico Ayer, Air Mail.
'A love letter to the cities he's returned to again and again. Vanhoenacker captivates when describing the silent beauty of a world glimpsed from above' - Washington Post.
'Eloquent. A love song to cities the world over' - Wall Street Journal.
'Evocative & Lyrical. At the keyboard, Vanhoenacker has danced, and on his pages there is tumbling mirth indeed' - Boston Globe.
The Author
Mark Vanhoenacker is a Belgian-American airline pilot and author. He is a Boeing 787 pilot with British Airways and is also frequent contributor for the New York Times, Slate and the Financial Times with a focus on aviation.