Falling for Icarus A Journey Among the Cretans

Informationen zum Autor Rory MacLean Klappentext 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! MacLean journeyed back to beginnings! back into the Greek myths! and built a plane and tried to fly. Zusammenfassung 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! MacLean journeyed back to beginnings! back into the Greek myths! and built a plane and tried to fly.

Product details

• Authors: Rory MacLean, MacLean Rory
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.10.2011
• Subject: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales
• EAN: 9781848859562
• ISBN: 978-1-84885-956-2
• Pages: 352
• Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Subjects: TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Memoirs, TRAVEL / Europe / Greece, Travel writing, Crete, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs