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  • Bird Dream

  • Adventures at the Extremes of Human Flight
  • Auteur(s): Matt Higgins
  • Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
  • Durée: 9 h et 7 min

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Bird Dream

Auteur(s): Matt Higgins
Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
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Human flight is one of the last great challenges on Earth. Not like how the Wright brothers flew, but how we fly in our dreams. This is the goal of the Wingsuit Landing Project: to soar through the sky at speeds up to 100 miles per hour and to land without the aid of a parachute. This project is the creation of 37-year-old Jeb Corliss, Jr., a Southern Californian who seeks to emulate a mode of flight more like a flying squirrel than bird or plane. Journalist Matt Higgins gained intimate access to Corliss, who, after years of base jumping and skydiving, set out to be the first person to be dropped 2,400 feet and land solely with the aid of a wingsuit. But somewhere in the UK, 42-year-old Gary Connery was plotting to beat Corliss at his own game. Along with an international group of wingsuit devotees, Corliss and Connery race to leap into the unknown as the world's foremost wingsuit pilots. This race will nearly cost one of the competitors his life.

A riveting, adrenaline-fueled narrative about a group of unforgettable characters who risk everything to achieve man's age-old dream of flying, Bird Dream takes listeners to the cutting edge of this new frontier - as well as the strange science and fearless history that have led us to this remarkable point in the human experience.

©2014 Matt Higgins (P)2014 Tantor

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"An engrossing and exhaustively researched account of extremists who challenge failure and death on a regular basis." ---Library Journal Starred Review

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