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Falling For Icarus

On a windy spring morning in an ancient Cretan village, Rory MacLean fell to earth. His mother had died a few months earlier and a single obsession had risen from his grief: the notion to build a feather-light flying machine. And so, on the island where Daedalus and Icarus had made man’s maiden flight, MacLean journeyed back to beginnings, back into the Greek myths, and — with the help of his Cretan neighbors and plenty of wine — built a plane and tried to fly.

Falling for Icarus is at once a meditation on love, a celebration of the passion for flight, and a hilarious, vivid portrait of a village. Its generous and exhilarating characters restore MacLean’s faith in life. Through them, he tells a soaring, moving story about how a dream can transform sadness.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-101594-1
  • EAN
  • 9780141015941
  • Genres
  • greece, travel
  • Release date
  • 2005