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William Langewiesche
Blending history, anecdote, travelogue, and reportage, the author describes his journey across the Sahara, captures life in the region, and describes the unique character, history, and religious, cultural, and social…
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With the demise of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, there remains no more potent–or notorious–political border than the 1,951-mile division between the US and Mexico. Langewiesche shows us…
In this insightful and poetic reflection of the first century of human flight, Langewiesche considers how flying has altered not only how we move about the world but also how…
With typically understated lyricism, Langewiesche explores the ocean world and the enterprises–licit and illicit–that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons.
Includes essays that consider how flying has altered not only how we move about the earth, but also how we view our world and our place in it. With descriptions…
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The most lyrical and incisive book on flying revised, expanded, and updated-from the author of Inside the Sky.
In these essays, William Langewiesche considers how flying has altered not only…
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From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can resist bird attacks, through the creation of the A320 in France, to the political and social…
Within days after 9/11, Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock access to the World Trade Center site. American Ground is a tour of this intense, ephemeral world and the story…
Professor William Langewiesche
Originally published in 2009 with the subtitle: The geese, the glide, the miracle on the Hudson.
In his shocking and revelatory new work, a celebrated journalist investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. From Hiroshima to the present day, Langewiesche describes a reality of…
This shocking new work investigates the burgeoning threat of nuclear-weapons technology shifting from rich nations into the grip of poor, unstable, undeveloped nations, upping the stakes for state-sponsored nuclear activity.
Wolfgang Langewiesche
Wolfgang Langewiesche is revered among pilots for his 1944 flying primer, Stick and Rudder, currently in its seventieth printing. Considered the bible of aviation, it tells us the how of…
