The Wild Blue Yonder: Picador Book of Aviation

by Graham Coster (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.31

  This collection of writing about flying spans the 20th century, featuring poems and prose by pioneer aviators, war pilots, amateurs and writers from Julian Barnes to Nicholson Baker.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.31

  The story of aviation is almost exactly concurrent with the history of the 20th century. The Wild Blue Yonder contains some of the very best writing about flight, from the lonely adventure of pioneers like Beryl Markham and Antoine de Saint-Exupery, to the horror of aerial bombardment during the Spanish Civil War and the Vietnam War, from Chuck Yeager's breaking of the sound barrier to the musings of such writers as Tom Wolfe, Julian Barnes, Nicholson Baker and V. S. Naipaul.

  The Wild Blue Yonder is a collection that brings together writing that puts into words the exhilarating, alarming, and sometimes sublimely mystical sensation of flight.