Fate Is the Hunter: The Anthropology of Daily Life

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 1986

Ernest K. Gann s classic memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviation. In his inimitable style, Gann brings you right into the cockpit, recounting both the triumphs and terrors of pilots who flew when flying was anything but routine."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780671636036
ISBN-10: 0671636030
Pagini: 390
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Touchstone.
Editura: Touchstone Books
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Ernest K. Gann was an American aviator, author, sailor, and conservationist. He is known for his novels Island in the Sky and The High and the Mighty and his classic memoir of early commercial aviation Fate Is the Hunter, all of which were made into major motion pictures. He died in 1991.

Descriere

"This book is an episodic log of some of the more memorable of (the author's) nearly 10,000 hours aloft in peace and in war. It is also an attempt to define by example his belief in the phenomenon of luck-- that the pattern of anyone's fate is only partly contrived by the individual".--The New Yorker.

Cuprins

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PROLOGUE

THE TIP OF THE ARROW

AN UNDESIRED RENDEZVOUS IN THE NIGHT

I THE INNOCENTS

AND OF THE FACTS OF AERIAL LIFE

II A NOVITIATE

TANGLED AND STUMBLING IN THE ROBES OF HIS ORDER

III HUMILITY LEARNED

IN WHICH A MASTER IS TOLERANT

IV A CAPTAIN

AT WORK

V THE SEASONING

WHERE THE MIND IS HONED AND SWEAT IS FOUND TO MIX WITH ICE

VI OF NUMBERS

AND THEIR POWER TO REDUCE THE PRESUMPTUOUS QUICKLY

VII GYPSIES

DOUBTFUL OF STATION AND INTENTIONS

VIII RULE BOOKS ARE PAPER

THEY WILL NOT CUSHION A SUDDEN MEETING OF STONE AND METAL

IX VALHALLA

THE TORTUOUS ROUTE THERETO

X A LONELY, UNLOVED SHIP

FINDING HAZARD THE MORE BITTER WHEN MATCHED WITH TRIFLES

XI THE NUMBERS

IN A WICKED, VENGEFUL MOOD

XII COLD

EXHAUSTING, UNRELENTING, MURDEROUS COLD

XIII HEAT

IN MOST MEN THERE LURKS A LESSER MAN, AND HIS PRESENCE SMELLS IN THE SUN

XIV FORTUNE

WHERE IS THE MAN WHO SURVIVES WITHOUT

XV A HOLE

SO SMALL, BUT OF EXQUISITE DESIGN

XVI A PRETENDER

HOW ONE FINE MAN IS ILL-USED BY FATE AND ANOTHER DARES DECEIVE IT

XVII A CERTAIN EMBARRASSMENT

THE URGE TO SHIFT BLAME BECOMES EVEN UGLIER WHEN THE ACCUSED HAS LEFT THE FEAST

XVIII TRAGEDY AND ESCAPE

THERE IS A DEGREE OF MERCY BEYOND WHICH ANY MAN IS RUDE TO INQUIRE

EPILOGUE

NOTES

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