EAN: 9780525657507

IMAGINE A CITY - MARK VANHOENACKER GEBUNDEN

This love letter to the cities of the world—from the airline pilot–author of Skyfaring—is a
journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energized 
open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives (Alain de Botton 
author of The Art of Travel). In his small New England hometown  Mark Vanhoenacker spent his
childhood dreaming of elsewhere— of the distant  real cities he found on the illuminated globe
in his bedroom  and of one perfect metropolis that existed only in his imagination. These
cities were the sources of endless comfort and escape  and of a lasting fascination. Streets
unspooled  towers shone  and anonymous crowds bustled in the places where Mark hoped he could
someday be anyone—perhaps even himself. Now  as a commercial airline pilot  Mark has spent
nearly two decades crossing the skies of our planet and touching down in dozens of the storied
cities he imagined as a child. He experiences these destinations during brief stays that he
repeats month after month and year after year  giving him an unconventional and uniquely vivid
perspective on the places that form our urban world. In this intimate yet expansive work that
weaves travelogue with memoir  Mark celebrates the cities he has come to know and to love 
through the lens of the hometown his heart has never quite left. As he explores emblematic
facets of each city’s identity— the road signs of Los Angeles  the old gates of Jeddah  the
snowy streets of Sapporo—he shows us with warmth and fresh eyes the extraordinary places that
billions of us call home.

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