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AMERICAN GROUND UNBUILDING THE WORLD TRADE CENTER by LANGEWIESCHE WILLIAM
Category: History
Noted author, war correspondent, and award-winning writer for the Atlantic Monthly, William Langewiesche furnishes a riveting firsthand account of the excavation of the World Trade Center ruins following its destruction on September 11, 2001. American Ground is an inspiring look at the often contentious ...Show more
Aloft : Thoughts on the experience of flight by William Langewiesche
Category: Planes Trains Automobiles | Series: Modern Classics
In the essays collected here William Langewiesche considers 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 vivid descriptions of the aesthetics and excitement of flight, Langewiesche also writes of the risks that go with this beauty: ...Show more
American Ground by William Langewiesche
Category: History
Released for the 10-year anniversary, the story of the Ground Zero clean-up; a landmark piece of journalism and a 'classic of frontline reportage'
Fly By Wire : The geese, the glide, the miracle on the Hudson by William Langewiesche
Category: Biography
On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next three minutes, the plane's pilot Chelsey "Sully" Sullenberger, managed to glide to a safe landing in the Hudso ...Show more
Inside the Sky - A Meditation on Flight by William Langewiesche
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
William Langewiesche's life has been deeply intertwined with the idea and act of flying. Fifty years ago his father, a test pilot, wrote Stick and Rudder, a text still considered by many to be the bible of aerial navigation. Langewiesche himself learned to fly while still a child. Now he shares his pilo ...Show more
The Atomic Bazaar : Dispatches from the underground world of nuclear trafficking by William Langewiesche
Category: History
In the nuclear age, arms are the ultimate commodity. And now they are easier and cheaper to acquire and make than ever before - which means that for poor nations or non-state terror groups, weapons of mass destruction are up for grabs. William Langewiesche looks at how nuclear weapons have gone wholesal ...Show more
The Atomic Bazaar : the rise of the nuclear poor by William Langewiesche
Category: Politics
The nuclear arms race is a reality for all of us. Yet as proliferation continues, and more and more nations acquire the ultimate arms, the stakes of state-sponsored nuclear activity are soaring to frightening heights. Even more disturbing is the possibility of such weapons being manufactured and deploye ...Show more
The Outlaw Sea : Chaos and crime on the world's oceans by William Langewiesche
Category: History
Langewiesche vividly reports on the unforgiving and brutal forces to which those who take to the sea are exposed Three quarters of the world is made up of ocean: vast, untamed expanses of water, impossible to police rigorously. For travellers by sea there is an ever-present danger of shipwreck, the age- ...Show more
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