Bøger af Layne Maheu

The risks and romance of early flight, told through the eyes of the bright young apprentice who finds himself drawn into the tailwinds of the dashing and aristocratic aeronauts who would make aviation history ...A thrilling historical novel of early aviation, based on the real and larger-than-life escapades of aviation pioneer and professional adventurer Hubert Latham, first man to attempt to fly a plane across the English Channel. The daring race for glory in the skies, alongside the likes of Wilbur Wright andLouis Blériot, is told through the eyes of Latham's young apprentice, who finds himself drawn, by a chance encounter in the countryside, into the rushing tailwinds of the dashing and aristocratic pilots who would make aviation history.This brilliantly told tale, set just before World War I in the high society of Belle Epoque France, blends the mad risks of early flight with the passion and heartbreak Latham shared with Antoinette, namesake of his signature aeroplane, and beloved daughter of his main financier.

The narrator of this ancient story, a crow, learns of this creature called Noah just as the woods come crashing down around him, to becomebuilding materials for the ark. The stone ax of this gray-headed beastman blasts not only the trees of the "songscape," but also the very order of things to come.At a time when our own human landscape seems increasingly challenged, Song of the Crow asks us to linger in an ancient world of elemental wonders. Sensuous and cinematic, this retelling of the Flood Myth brings us to the intelligence of another creature, our relationship to the animalsand the natural world, and the impact of free will as we struggle. Lyric, deeply imagined, charged with wisdom and wit, Layne Maheu's story asks the big questions as we understand our journey on the rising tides between the heavens and earth.