The Wonder of Flight.
Fascinating and elegantly written, this is a unique collaboration between one of the world\'s leading zoologists and a talented artist, and perfect for enquiring teenage minds..
But it also means Flights of digression into more general ideas and principles that take off from a discussion about actual flight.
Flights of Fancy is a book about flying - all the different ways of Defying Gravity that have been discovered by humans over the centuries and by other animals over the millions of years, from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but magnificent bird Argentavis magnificens , to the Wright Flyer and the 747.
No wonder some of the past\'s greatest minds, including Leonardo da Vinci\'s, have yearned for flying machines and struggled to Design them.
But it\'s not the real thing.
Computer games, virtual reality headsets, and some drugs can lift our imagination and fly us through fabled, magical spaces.
Do you sometimes dream you can fly like a bird? Gliding effortlessly above the treetops, soaring and swooping, playing and dodging through the third dimension.
From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of Gravity and take to the skies.
The Science of Evolution.
The Wonder of Flight
