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Skybound : a journey in flight / Rebecca Loncraine.
Van Pelt Library GV763.86.L66 A3 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loncraine, Rebecca, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Loncraine, Rebecca, 1974-.
- Gliding and soaring.
- Gliders (Aeronautics)--Piloting.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Picador, 2018.
- Summary:
- In her mid-thirties Rebecca Loncraine was diagnosed with breast cancer. Two years later, and after months of gruelling treatment, she flew in a glider for the first time. In that engineless plane, soaring 3,000 feet over the landscape of her childhood with only the rising thermals to take her higher and the birds to lead the way, she fell in love. If illness meant Rebecca had lost touch with the world around her, gliding showed her a way to learn to live again. And so Rebecca travelled from the Black Mountains in Wales to New Zealand's Southern Alps and the Nepalese Himalayas to chase her new-found passion: her need to fly with the birds, to push herself to the boundary of her own fear. Skybound is the story of that obsession and of Rebecca's incredible journey from the ground, into the sky and back again.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781447273868
- 1447273869
- 1447273885
- 9781447273882
- OCLC:
- 1037004163
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