Aloft (Vintage Departures)
“At once thrilling and informative, awe-inspiring and exact, in places frightening, in other reassuring, and always elegant.”—Booker Prize winning author John Banville “A sharp observer and gifted stylist whose sentences often have a kind of poetic precision.”—Washington Post “Langewiesche’s prose flows seamlessly and elegantly.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “[A] formidable talent ... whose cool, precise and economical reporting is harnessed to an invigorating moral and intellectual perspective.”—The New York Times