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The Pilot and the Landscape: America from the Air (American Land Classics) by Wolfgang Langewiesche is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>"I am no helmeted, begoggled hero of the skies; picture me bookish, bespectacled, unable to hold even a teacup without rattling it. As a pilot, I am merely an amateur, and I know it.... I shouldn't be talking. But I can't help talking. For you take the air: the thin, substanceless air that can be made to bear a man; you take America; and you take an airplane, which of all the works of man is the nearest to a living being--you take those things and mix them up, and they will act as a drug whic
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Wolfgang Langewiesche
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801878183
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Photography, Memoirs
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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