And yet, Skybound is still a book about learning to live again: deeply moving, thrilling and euphoric, this is a book for anyone who has ever looked up and wanted to take flight. Just as she finished writing Skybound Rebecca became ill again. Taking in the history of unpowered flight, and with extraordinary descriptions of flying in some of the world's most dangerous and dramatic locations, this is a nature memoir with a unique perspective it is about the land we know and the sky we know so little of, it is about memory and self-discovery. One on occasion a flight attendant witnessed a woman suffering an incredibly embarrassing mishap. Skybound is the story of that obsession and of Rebecca's incredible journey from the ground, into the sky and back again. Parliamentary bosses will discuss revoking a ban on nuclear testing, an official said, after Vladimir Putin suggested Russia could resume testing for the first time in three decades. Several passengers were left so terrified they required hospital treatment. If illness meant Rebecca had lost touch with the world around her, gliding showed her a way to learn to live again.Īnd so Rebecca travelled from the Black Mountains in Wales to New Zealand's Southern Alps and the Nepalese Himalayas to chase her newfound passion: her need to fly with the birds, to push herself to the boundary of her own fear. In a terrifying moment caught on video, a passenger on a flight in South Korea allegedly opened a plane door mid-flight. In that engineless plane, soaring 3000 feet over the landscape of her childhood with only the rising thermals to take her higher and the birds to lead the way, she fell in love. Two years later, and after months of gruelling treatment, she flew in a glider for the first time.

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