Skybound : a journey in flight
Loncraine, Rebecca, 1974-2018
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In her mid-30s 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 3000 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 newfound passion: her need to fly with the birds, to push herself to the boundary of her own fear.
Main title:
Skybound : a journey in flight / Rebecca Loncraine.
Author:
Loncraine, Rebecca, 1974-, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2018.
Collation:
309 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781447273868 (hbk)
Dewey class:
797.55B/LON
LC class:
GV764
Local class:
797.55
Language:
English
BRN:
2203143