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Falling for Icarus

Falling for Icarus A Journey Among the Cretans

Paperback (28 Apr 2005)

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Publisher's Synopsis

On a windy afternoon in early spring Rory MacLean fell to earth in Anissari, a village surrounded by white mountains in an ancient corner of Crete. MacLean's mother had died only a few months earlier and he had been engulfed by grief. But an old desire had also taken hold - to build and fly an aeroplane. And so he set off to the land where Daedalus and Icarus had made their maiden flight and settled in to days of eating lamb and drinking wine with his Cretan neighbours and, with their help, attempting to build a Woodhopper from scratch and make it fly.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780141015941
Publisher: Penguin Group (UK)
Imprint: Penguin Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 914.9590476
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 334
Weight: 244g
Height: 199mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 24mm