A View from the Air: Charles Lindbergh's Earth and Sky (Picture Puffins) - Softcover

Lindbergh, Reeve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140548181 ISBN 13: 9780140548181

Publisher: Puffin, 1996

Synopsis

A pilot's perspective provides an enlightening view of man's impact on the Earth

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From Publishers Weekly:

As a tribute to her late father's "great love and concern for the natural world," author Lindbergh ( The Midnight Farm ) imagines and gives voice to the aviator's thoughts as he flies over the land he cherishes. Written as a poem, her words are accompanied by a series of aerial photographs taken in the early 1970s when the elder Lindbergh flew a young nature photographer over northern New England. Brown's sweeping images celebrate the grace and dignity of the landscape in colorful detail: a sun-dappled church; a cluster of red farm buildings blanketed in snow; the blazing colors of autumn foliage. Unfortunately, the presentation of this laudable undertaking seems to distance the reader from Charles Lindbergh's voice. Also, the rigorous meter of Lindbergh's occasionally heavy-handed verse ("Earth can still heal and recover / Given our time and our care. / Some things have vanished forever / But earth will remain, and repair.") clashes with the grandeur and power of the photographs. All ages.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1-5 --Charles Lindbergh flew over New England in his last flights as a pilot, accompanied by a photographer who expertly captured the neat towns and farms, as well as the natural beauty of the landscape below, throughout several seasons. Lindbergh's daughter has written a poem in memory of her father, the verses of which are well matched to Brown's full-page color photos. The poet's voice is that of a pilot re-creating the satisfaction of being in the air, looking down at ``. . . wild lands and waters/Scattered with sunlight and rain,'' reflecting, as the pioneer aviator did, that ``Earth's oldest wisdom is wildness:/Wildness must always remain.'' A handsome, strongly delivered plea. --John Peters, New York Public Library
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140548181
• ISBN 13: 9780140548181
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32