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.
- Author
- Rory MacLean
- Format
- paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-101594-1
- EAN
- 9780141015941
- Genres
- greece, travel
- Release date
- 2005
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