Wings Around the Globe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wings Around the Globe write by Bill Scollon. This book was released on 2013. Wings Around the Globe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Small-town crop duster Dusty Crophopper participates in a race around the world.
Wings Around the World
Wings Around the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wings Around the World write by Polly Vacher. This book was released on 2006-11-19. Wings Around the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pilot’s account of her around-the-world adventure, including color photos. On May 6, 2003, Polly Vacher, a fifty-nine-year-old mother of three, took off from an airport in Birmingham, England, seeking to become the first pilot to complete a solo flight around the world, via both Poles, in a single-engine aircraft. Despite having only a few years of flying experience, Polly had already completed a lateral solo circumnavigation of the world in 2001 for the charity Flying Scholarships for the Disabled. This second challenge, for the same charity, would make that achievement look like a casual jaunt. There would be no margin for error. Her voyage to the ice was a thirty-five thousand–mile adventure in her Piper Dakota that would take her to at least thirty different countries on every single continent. She had prepared meticulously for two years, was fully insured, and had all the requisite permits and visas. With her kinetic enthusiasm, charm, and persistence, she had already garnered numerous sponsors. However, as she took off on that blustery spring day—flanked by a Hurricane and a Spitfire and waved off by her family and the Prince of Wales—she suddenly felt so alone. She had begun a remarkable expedition that would gain her three world records—but would also encounter extremes of weather and emotion, much kindness and obstruction, and a little political intrigue. This is the story of that adventure. “Truly inspirational.” —Aviation News
Wings Around the World
Wings Around the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wings Around the World write by Polly Vacher. This book was released on 2008. Wings Around the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Polly Vacher wanted to become the first pilot to complete a solo flight around the world via both Poles in a single-engine aircraft. Her 60,000 mile voyage would take her to every continent. She prepared meticulously for two years and had garnered multifarious sponsors. However, as she took off, flanked by a Hurricane and a Spitfire, and waved off by her family and the Prince of Wales, she suddenly felt so alone. She had begun a remarkable expedition that would gain her three world records, but would also see her encounter extremes of weather and emotion, kindness, obstruction and also a little political intrigue.
Wings Around the World
Wings Around the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wings Around the World write by Burr Watkins Leyson. This book was released on 1948. Wings Around the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds write by Scott Weidensaul. This book was released on 2021-03-30. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year An exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration. In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch has exploded. What we’ve learned of these key migrations—how billions of birds circumnavigate the globe, flying tens of thousands of miles between hemispheres on an annual basis—is nothing short of extraordinary. Bird migration entails almost unfathomable endurance, like a sparrow-sized sandpiper that will fly nonstop from Canada to Venezuela—the equivalent of running 126 consecutive marathons without food, water, or rest—avoiding dehydration by "drinking" moisture from its own muscles and organs, while orienting itself using the earth’s magnetic field through a form of quantum entanglement that made Einstein queasy. Crossing the Pacific Ocean in nine days of nonstop flight, as some birds do, leaves little time for sleep, but migrants can put half their brains to sleep for a few seconds at a time, alternating sides—and their reaction time actually improves. These and other revelations convey both the wonder of bird migration and its global sweep, from the mudflats of the Yellow Sea in China to the remote mountains of northeastern India to the dusty hills of southern Cyprus. This breathtaking work of nature writing from Pulitzer Prize finalist Scott Weidensaul also introduces readers to those scientists, researchers, and bird lovers trying to preserve global migratory patterns in the face of climate change and other environmental challenges. Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork, in A World on the Wing Weidensaul unveils with dazzling prose the miracle of nature taking place over our heads.
