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Award-Shortlisted Flying Memoir

Travel Writing

Skybound : One Woman's Journey in Flight

by Rebecca Loncraine

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year Award 'Extraordinary' Daily Telegraph · 'Breathtaking' Guardian Skybound is a book for anyone who has looked up and longed to take flight.


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About the book

The day she flew in a glider for the first time, Rebecca Loncraine fell in love. Months of gruelling treatment for cancer meant she had lost touch with the world around her, but in that engineless plane, soaring 3,000 feet over the landscape of her childhood, with only the rising thermals to take her higher and the birds to lead the way, she felt ready to face life again. And so Rebecca flew, travelling from her home in the Black Mountains of Wales to New Zealand's Southern Alps and the Nepalese Himalayas as she chased her new-found passion: her need to soar with the birds. She would push herself to the boundary of her own fear, and learn to live with joy and hope once more.

Book details

Published by Pan Macmillan

Paperback ISBN: 9781447273875 18 Apr 2019 192 x 128 x 20 (mm) 360g