false 4578723 1 Over the last century air travel has evolved from a high-risk experiment involving a few visionary pioneers to an efficient&#8212;and often irritating&#8212;means for distributing masses of people to the far reaches of the globe. During the hundred-year history of human air travel, it has yielded writing that is, by turns, heroic, dreamy, subversive, and utterly dire. This anthology traces this trajectory from the early letters and memoirs of Wilbur and Orville Wright, and Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, to the diaries of Amelia Earhart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery&#8217;s heroism gives way to the darkly magical storytelling of Roald Dahl, and the spare, elegiac prose of master stylist James Salter. More recent stories by Erica Jong, Mary Gaitskill, Thomas Beller, Mike Albo, Maxine Swann, and David Sedaris examine an array of contemporary subjects, from the addictiveness of mile-high sex, to etiquette for cramped seating and accounts of racial profiling post&#8211;9/11. <I>Flight Patterns</I> promises an entertaining refuge for frequent fliers, and a gateway to dreams for nighttime readers. These writings exude the primal fear and cool perspective that can only come from seeing the world&#8212;and one&#8217;s own life&#8212;from a great distance. <I>Flight Patterns</I> renders airplane travel a time capsule of modern life. 4628115 3 3 2009 Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying total:1|5:0|4:1|3:0|2:0|1:0| 1 4 31 0 4 0 false false Sun Nov 29 21:34:21 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 21:34:27 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 26 20:39:40 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 20:39:40 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 07:44:12 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 07:44:12 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 12 16:48:22 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 16:48:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 10 14:57:56 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 14:57:56 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 29 12:36:45 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 12:36:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 16 13:36:39 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 13:36:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 18 08:24:07 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 08:24:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 29 13:04:56 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 13:04:56 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 22 05:46:19 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 05:46:19 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 16:06:43 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 16:06:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 07 10:37:01 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 10:37:01 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 27 20:04:10 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 20:04:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 26 04:55:24 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 04:55:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 28 13:49:13 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 13:49:16 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 16 10:23:06 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 10:23:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Apr 03 12:39:34 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 12:39:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 02 07:29:24 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 07:29:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 26 08:31:52 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 08:31:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 02 10:22:25 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 10:22:25 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4578723