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Very good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
Publishing Language
English
ISBN
1848859562
EAN
9781848859562
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Type
Paperback / softback
Release Title
Falling for Icarus: A Journey Among the Cretans (Tauris Parke ...
Artist
Rory MacLean
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Publication Year
2011
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Falling for Icarus: a Journey Among the Cretans
Author
Rory Maclean
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Topic
Memorials, Travel Writing
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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On a windy spring morning in an ancient Cretan village, Rory MacLean fell to earth. His mother had died a few months earlier and a single obsession had risen from his grief: the notion to build a feather-light flying machine. And so, on the island where Daedalus and Icarus had made mankind's maiden flight, MacLean journeyed back to beginnings, back into the Greek myths, and - with the help of his Cretan neighbours and plenty of wine - built a plane and tried to fly. Falling for Icarus is at once a meditation on love, a celebration of the passion for flight and an hilarious, vivid portrait of a village. Its generous and exhilarating characters - Yioryio, the irrepressible cafe owner, dreamy, dying Aphrodite and divine Apostoli, would-be pilot and Greek god in a golden flying suit - restore MacLean's faith in life. Through them, he tells a soaring, moving story about how a dream can transform sadness.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9781848859562
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Falling for Icarus: a Journey Among the Cretans
Author
Rory Maclean
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Memorials, Travel Writing
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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Rory Maclean
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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