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12/100Critics
74/100Scholars
Author:
Mark Vanhoenacker
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
July 5, 2022
This love letter to the cities of the worldâfrom the airline pilotâauthor of Skyfaring is "a journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energized, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives."
What The Reviewers Say
What makes this captain of the heavens so appealing is a kind of all-American innocence that helps him savor 'the palmistry of lit streets' in Salt Lake City, seen from 38,000 feet above, as eagerly as he devours the poets of Delhi when touching down for 48 hours. Linking the places he flies between through snow, or gates, or the color blue, Vanhoenacker, meticulous enough to offer a 16-page bibliography, seems to have a near-bottomless appetite for fresh sights and guidebook curiosities.
Mark Vanhoenacker has crafted an eloquent personal tribute to [cities].
Imagine a City is, to be sure, a travelogue.
[Vanhoenacker's] intricately structured text offers several episodes that present us with memorable images of the world as experienced from the cockpit.
