Falling for Icarus
Author(s): Rory MacLean
On a windy spring morning in an ancient village surrounded by mountains on Crete, 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, on the island where Daedalus and Icarus had made man's maiden flight, MacLean journeyed back to beginnings, back into the Greek myths, and - with the help of effusive but irrepressible neighbours and plenty of wine - built a plane and tried to fly . . .
Product Information
Rory MacLean is the author of four highly acclaimed and award-winning books. He is a regular contributor to Radio 4 and lives in Dorset with his wife and son.
General Fields
- :
- : pengui
- : pengui
- : 0.244
- : 28 April 2005
- : 199mm X 130mm X 24mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Rory MacLean
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 914.9590476
- : 368
- : Illustrations , maps, ports.