Fly By Wire: The Geese, The Glide, The Miracle On The Hudson

By WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE, Langewiesche/William

In *Fly by Wire*, one of America's greatest journalists takes us on a "fascinating" (*The New York Times*) and sometimes humorous journey into the rapidly changing aviation industry. Langewiesche c...

The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise Of The Nuclear Poor

By William Langewiesche, Langewiesche/William

In his shocking and revelatory new work, the celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. This is the story of the inexorable...

Fly by wire

By William Langewiesche

From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can systematically resist bird attacks, through the creation of the A320 in France, to the political and social for...

SAHARA UNVEILED: A Journey Across the Desert

By William Langewiesche

In our imagination, the desert is a scorching flatland, a palm grove like a shimmering green line floating in the distance, an ocean of dunes. You can close your eyes to see it. When William Langew...

Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight

By William Langewiesche

"William Langewiesche tells us how flight happens - what the pilot sees, thinks, and feels. His description is not merely about speed and conquest. It takes the form of a deliberate climb, leading...

Inside the Sky

By William Langewiesche

William Langewiesche's life has been deeply intertwined with the idea and act of flying.  Fifty years ago his father, a test pilot, wrote Stick and Rudder, a text still considered by many...

American ground unbuilding the World Trade Center

By William Langewiesche

At the center of the book is the team of engineers, many of them instrumental in building the towers, who now must collaborate in the sad task of disassembling them. Their responses are as dramatic...

American Ground

By William Langewiesche

"Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, around-the-clock access to the World Trade Center site. American Ground is a tour of this intense, ephe...

The Outlaw Sea: A World Of Freedom, Chaos, And Crime By Langewiesche, William (2005) Paperback

By William Langewiesche, Langewiesche/William

Riveting stories of our last frontier and the acts of God and man upon itEven if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean spreads acros...

Sahara devoile

By Langewiesche William