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Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings  Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, with the incomparable Paul Theroux as a guide. From the crisp quiet of a solitary week spent in the snowbound Maine woods to the expectant chaos of Hong Kong on the eve of the Hand-over, Theroux demonstrates how the traveling life and the writing life are intimately connected. His journeys in remote hinterlands and crowded foreign capitals provide the necessary perspective to "become a stranger" in order to discover the self. A companion volume to SUNRISE WITH SEAMONSTERS, FRESH AIR FIEND is the ultimate good read for anyone fascinated by travel in the wider world or curious about the life of one of our most passionate travelers.Author: Paul Theroux Paperback: 480 pages Company: Mariner Books (2001-05-01) ISBN: 0618126937 List Price: $15.95 Amazon Price: $2.99 Used Price: $0.43 Vivid Air: Travels to a Further Shore  Vivid Air is a memoir of the adventurous life of an Australian who encountered her American husband on a slow boat to Singapore. Meeting again as graduate students in London, they married and sailed first to the South Seas for fieldwork, then to a world now gone - a world of Imperial power and pageantry that once existed in Laos, Pakistan, Kathmandu, India, and the Philippines. Each chapter reveals the pleasures and risks of living in exotic cultures from encountering the fascinating characters who were a part of that era - to facing the political upsets that accompanied a rapidly changing Asia.Author: Catharine Cool Paperback: 345 pages Company: Infinity Publishing (2006-12-08) (2006-12-08) ISBN: 0741436973 List Price: $18.95 Amazon Price: $18.95 Used Price: $18.22 Military Space-A Air Travel Guide Paperback:
Company: Military Living Pubns (2003-04) ISBN: 1931424055 List Price: $23.45 Amazon Price: Used Price: $39.95 Clipping the Clouds: How Air Travel Changed the World (Moving through History: Transportation and Society)  At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is difficult to imagine our world without aircraft. Airplanes are everywhere, and rapid air transport has become one of the necessities of our time. Yet one of the peculiarities of powered flight is that it has stayed in the public focus for over a century. Clipping the Clouds looks at the history of aviation in a challenging new way, covering not just the technology, but the way aviation has interacted with society since its very beginnings. Mixing in pop culture--each chapter opens and closes with an excerpt from a movie that depicts elements of air transport illustrating the chapter's theme--Dierikx provides a chronological history of the evolution of air travel since 1919. He covers the significant challenges and developments in air transportation for each of four chronological periods, starting with how and why aviation came to play an important role in international politics and economic relations. He follows with an examination of how improvements in technology influenced existing concepts of distance, created new travel patterns, and what effect the growth in numbers of passenger and cargo had on air transportation. Finally, Dierikx looks at how airlines have become increasingly detached from national interests and state control, concluding with an overview of the current state of air travel and a description of the role air transportation has played in the creation of a global society.Author: Marc Dierikx Hardcover: 216 pages Company: Praeger Publishers (2008-06-30) ISBN: 0275989100 List Price: $49.95 Amazon Price: $28.50 Used Price: $39.95 Aviation Insecurity: The New Challenges of Air Travel  The events of September 11, 2001 compelled the American public to look at air travel as much more than merely another way of getting from point A to point B. An industry that was previously viewed as a routine component of modern transport is now seen as both a vital national asset and a vulnerable security risk. In this compelling critique of the security measures taken after September 11, aviation security expert Andrew Thomas considers the proposed solutions to the vulnerability of airlines in terms of practicality, cost, and effectiveness, and outlines a better strategic approach for government and the aviation industry to meet new and existing threats while continuing to serve the public in an efficient manner. Air Travel Tales From The Flight Crew, 2nd Edition: The Plane Truth At 35,000 Feet  Air travel may be crazy on the ground, but what's it like at 35,000 feet? How safe are you when you fly? Is airport security as good as they claim? How common is the Mile High Club? This revealing book answers these and many other questions that expose all the warts and blemishes of air travel.Author: A. Frank Steward Paperback: 240 pages Company: Impact Publications (2005-10-25) ISBN: 1570232423 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $3.93 Used Price: $0.28 Flying High With A Frank Steward: More Air Travel Tales From the Flight Crew  One of today's most popular travel columnists advises travelers on surviving the challenges of airports, security, planes, and fellow passengers. Includes dozens of stories about air travel that reveal the human side of what really goes on in the air. Packed with stories about the crazy, humorous, and sad events that happen to passengers and flight personnel alike. Readers laugh, grimace, and cry as this frank steward tells it like it really is.Author: James Wysong Paperback: 244 pages Company: Impact Publications (2007-10-25) ISBN: 1570232725 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $4.99 Used Price: $3.80 The Smile-High Club: Outrageous but True Air Travel Stories  More than 18 million flights a year carry more than one billion passengers for business and for pleasure. This, of course, leads to increased opportunities for humor in the skies. Consider the pilot whose skills were questioned after a ride ended roughly: After a particularly hard landing in Tampa, the U.S. Airways pilot apologized over the public address system to the passengers. The crew stood at the door to say good-bye to the passengers as they deplaned. The pilot felt so bad about the landing, he couldn't look anyone in the eye. None of the passengers said anything derogatory until a sweet little lady walking with the help of a cane approached him. "Sonny," she said right in his face. "Did we land...or were we shot down?" Author Allan Zullo has produced some of the world's most notoriously funny books, filled with astonishing-but-true stories. With coauthor Kathy Nelson, Zullo's latest entrant captures some of flying's best moments, from the Northwest captain who had pizza delivered to a plane stuck on the tarmac to the Delta flight engineer who fell out the back exit of a taxiing jet. "Hey, thanks for waiting for me!" he told the pilot who slowed to pick him up. "No problem," answered the captain. "I like you." From start to finish, The Smile-High Club will keep readers laughing at some of aviation's most amazing antics.Author: Kathy Nelson, Allan Zullo Paperback: 224 pages Company: Andrews McMeel Publishing (2002-08-02) ISBN: 0740727273 List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $5.95 Used Price: $0.68 Business & Corporate Aviation Management : On Demand Air Travel  Here is a comprehensive and practical guide to choosing a business aviation model, setting it up, and making it work. The author, who has more than four decades in the aviation industry, skillfully blends business and aviation issues to provide solid decision-making strategies and smart operating practices for the establishment and management of business aircraft. Mystery Ship: A History of the Travel Air Type R Monoplanes (Historic Aircraft Series) (Historic Aircraft Series)  Author: Edward H. Phillips Paperback: 112 pages Company: Flying Books International (1999-09-01) ISBN: 091113929X List Price: $29.95 Amazon Price: $29.95 Used Price: $24.00 |