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Product Details
Simon & Schuster, April 2004
Trade Paperback, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0743257901
ISBN-13: 9780743257909
Description
In a good year aerobatics is one of the most beautiful sports imaginable. Pilots pull through impossibly elegant figures at hundreds of miles an hour. In a bad year no sport kills more of its participants. To fly really well and to win you must depart the land of the possible and enter a place of pure faith. In this stunning literary debut, Joshua Cooper Ramo has crafted a meditation on the seduction of flight and a passionate love letter to a life of risk.
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Browse Inside No Visible HorizonJon Krakauer
Author of Into The Wild and Into Thin Air
No Visible Horizon is a raw, brash, astonishing work of nonfiction. Writing at times with an easy grace, at other times in a wild headlong rush, Joshua Cooper Ramo deftly conveys why he and a handful of kindred souls feel compelled to fly small airplanes right at the edge of what's possible, and sometimes beyond. The author is a risk-taker on the page as well as in the sky, and the rewards of this fine book are commensurate with the chances taken. Ramo's is an original voice, to be sure, but in his inflections one can detect echoes of James Salter, Peter Matthiessen, Norman Maclean, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
-- a resonance that reflects well on all parties.
Colonel (Ret.) Frank Borman
Ramo has the right stuff and so does his book. It's a classic.
Time Magazine
When he's in the cockpit performing feats of gritty derring-do (and occasionally derring-don't), his airplane groaning and shuddering with the strain, the book soars.
The Economist
Ramo writes so well that it is infectious.
Colonel (Ret.) Frank BormanRamo has the right stuff and so does his book. It's a classic.
