LEADER 00942nam1-22003131n-450- 001 990002661350203316 005 20050922103006.0 035 $a000266135 035 $aUSA01000266135 035 $a(ALEPH)000266135USA01 035 $a000266135 100 $a20050922-2004----m||y0itay0103----ba 101 0 $aita 102 $aIT 105 $ay|||z|||001yy 200 1 $aRime e giochi di corte$fBaldassarre Castiglione$ga cura di Michela Fantato$gpremessa di Giancarlo Malacarne e Gilberto Pizzamiglio 210 $aCanneto sull'Oglio$cEurograf$d2004 215 $aLXII, 121 p.$d21 cm. 676 $a858.3 700 1$aCASTIGLIONE,$bBaldassarre$0293236 702 1$aFANTATO,$bMichela 801 0$aIT$bsalbc$gISBD 912 $a990002661350203316 951 $aPAP 1558$bL.M.$cPAP$d00179661 959 $aBK 969 $aUMA 979 $aRENATO$b90$c20050922$lUSA01$h1030 996 $aRime e giochi di corte$91004753 997 $aUNISA LEADER 04367nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910965623103321 005 20240418015520.0 010 $a9780826273048 010 $a0826273041 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418404 035 $a(EBL)3440836 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000981271 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11549514 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981271 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10973443 035 $a(PQKB)10251878 035 $a(OCoLC)859162285 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3440836 035 $a(OCoLC)856935264 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30278 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3440836 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10749509 035 $a(Perlego)1704402 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418404 100 $a20130905d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPrairie sky $ea pilot's reflections on flying and the grace of altitude /$fW. Scott Olsen 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aColumbia, Mo. $cUniversity of Missouri$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (168 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780826220073 311 08$a082622007X 327 $aPrologue: Walking Chaucer -- River Flying: The Sheyenne River -- Short-hop Notebook: Dakota Sky -- A Wall of Old Trees -- Short-hop Notebook: Math Class -- River Flying: The Red River -- Short-hop Notebook: Fame -- Afternoon at the Atomic Cafe -- Ground reference -- Short-hop notebook: Stats -- Storm flying -- Short-hop notebook: Jazz -- Tag -- Short-hop Notebook: The Swoop -- That Thing Up Front -- A Very Deep low -- Monster Sky -- Thin Places and Thick Time: A Duet for Two Worlds -- Deep SWE -- Collecting the Horizon -- The Beautiful Line. 330 8 $a"It's almost like ballet. Preflight. Starting. Warm-up. The voices from the control tower-the instructions. Taxiing. The rush down the runway. Airborne. There are names for every move. The run-up. Position and hold. Every move needs to be learned, practiced, made so familiar you feel the patterns in every other thing you do. It's technical, yes. But there is a grace to getting metal and bone into the sky." Prairie Sky is a celebration of curiosity and a book for explorers. In this collection of contemplative essays, Scott Olsen invites readers to view the world from a pilot's seat, demonstrating how, with just a little bit of altitude, the world changes, new relationships become visible, and new questions seem to rise up from the ground. Whether searching for the still-evident shores of ancient lakes, the dustbowl-era shelterbelt supposed to run the length of the country, or the even more elusive understandings of physics and theology, Olsen shares the unique perspective and insight allowed to pilots. Prairie Sky explores the reality as well as the metaphor of flight: notions of ceaseless time and boundless space, personal interior and exterior vision, social history, meteorology, and geology. Olsen takes readers along as he chases a new way of looking at the physical world and wonders aloud about how the whole planet moves in interconnected ways not visible from the ground. While the northern prairie may call to mind images of golden harvests and summer twilight such images do not define the region. The land bears marks left by gut-shaking thunderstorms, hard-frozen rivers, sweeping floods, and hurricane-size storms. Olsen takes to the midwestern sky to confront the ordinary world and reveals the magic--the wondrous and unique sights visible from the pilot's seat of a Cessna. Like Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic work Wind, Sand and Stars, Olsen's Prairie Sky reveals the heart of what it means to fly. In the grand romantic tradition of the travel essay, it opens the dramatic paradoxes of self and collective, linear and circular, the heart and the border. 606 $aAir pilots$zUnited States$vBiography$vAnecdotes 606 $aAirplanes$xPiloting$vAnecdotes 607 $aGreat Plains$xDescription and travel 615 0$aAir pilots 615 0$aAirplanes$xPiloting 676 $a629.13092 700 $aOlsen$b W. Scott$f1958-$01814047 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965623103321 996 $aPrairie sky$94367629 997 $aUNINA