The Borrowers Aloft

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Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's huge adventures have been thrilling children young and old for fifty years--and their appeal is as strong as ever in these handsome new paperback packages. While the original beloved interior illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush have been retained, Marla Frazee's striking cover illustrations capture these little people with a larger-than-life appeal.

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Strawberry Basket Balloon.......2006-04-20

Being 13, I'm pretty picky, but this book was awsome! It's so in my shopping cart! I love how the Clocks are so smart, they can make everything out of anything! This book really appeased me, because I love models and mineature things, an the thought of moving, living, mineature people is so thrilling! I really liked how they made a hot-air balloon out of a strawberry basket, a fountain pen, and a plastic (or toy, as it says in the book) balloon. Soooo coool! I'm SO reading the other books (I've already read the book and seen the movie "The Borrowers").

The Borrowers Aloft.......2005-10-04

Again great reading in this series of books. Couldn't put it down. Great for children and adults alike

The Borrowers Aloft.......2002-10-14

I liked this book a lot. I like to read about how resourceful the Borrowers are when they use stuff humans don't need or misplace. It had really nice pictures, too. I recommend this book to kids five years and older.

The Borrowers in another tight situation.......2001-08-23

In this, the fourth book in the Borrowers series (after The Borrowers, The Borrowers Afield and The Borrowers Afloat), the Clocks have moved into Little Fordham, and are starting their new life. Unfortunately, unknown to them, the greedy Mr. Platter has built a rival model village. Having seen the Borrowers, he kidnaps them to add them to his own model. How can such small people escape from a prison built by such huge human "beans"?

Ah, Mary Norton (1903-92) was a genius! Her Borrower stories are an excellent combination of suspenseful adventure and heartwarming drama. My children and I love this book, and highly recommend it to you!

Read them all. They're all wonderful!.......1999-10-22

As a child in the 1950's, I read the original Borrowers in 4th grade. I read and re-read the one in the school library, til school closed for the summer. As luck would have it, I found the book and it's subsequent additions that summer in a book store. They were the only thing I ever BEGGED my mother to buy me. I took home The Borowers, The Borrowers Afield, and The Borrowers Afloat, and I still know parts of them by heart. When I was 18, the Borrowers Aloft came out, and my mother sent it to me at college. I was 36 when the Avenged came out, and I RAN to the bookstore. The stories are as fresh today as the first time I read them. I'm now in my 50's, and I can't imagine a life without Homily, Pod and Arriety Clock. Homily who is courageous, even though she'd rather not be. Pod, who is a simple man, taking care of his family. And Arriety, ready for life, ready for adventure, a young Victorian Feminist, if there ever was one. She taught me that a girl could be anything she wanted to be. They bravely faced a daunting world, and they're only 6 inches tall. I now own well over a thousand books, and really believe that it was this small family that lead me to my love of reading.

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colours aloft

Colours Aloft! (The Bolitho Novels)
Alexander Kent
Manufacturer: McBooks Press
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ASIN: 0935526722

Book Description

Falmouth, September 1803: As Bolitho faces the grim reality of war at close quarters, he will be called upon to anticipate the strategies of the French fleet. But the conflict has also taken on a personal note, reviving his vendetta with the French Admiral, Jobert, who once commanded the Argonaute.

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colours aloft.......2005-10-12

awsome stuff by kent once again, just can't get enough of this series. go bolitho!

Towing Aloft: Learning to Surface - Tow & Aerotow Hang Gliders, Paragliders & Ultralight Sailplanes

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An amazing all-in towing guide offering you years of knowhow

Towing Aloft: Learning to Surface - Tow & Aerotow Hang Gliders, Paragliders & Ultralight Sailplanes
Dennis Pagen , and Bill Bryden
Manufacturer: Black Mountain Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0936310138

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An amazing all-in towing guide offering you years of knowhow.......1998-12-11

This book has it all if you want to lear how to tow any aircraft that is towable! Want to know if your aircraft is towabe? read the book! Want to understand how winching works? Read the book! Want to make a winch yourself? Read the book! Want to lean how to... or improve your towing-skills. Read the book! Want to improve your flight under tow? Definitly read the book! I have been a paraglider under tow for over 2 years before reading this book, and i can tell you now that i have completely changed the way i fly under tow! Moreover i have a better insight in what happens when towing and i can share this knowledge with our new-born-tow-pilots and explain them a lot better what they are doing and better what to do when things are not going right! The only remark i have is that because the book covers all gliders, (paragliders, deltagliders, sailplanes...) you sometimes need to skip a lot of the pages as they may not particullary be of interest to you. My advice: If you fly under tow: read this book!

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not his best work
The Joy of Avoidance
Traveling is not just the destination~but the actual process of getting there, the literal travail.
Middle age can be challenging!
Observation on life

Aloft
Chang-Rae Lee
Manufacturer: Riverhead Hardcover
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ASIN: 1573222631
Release Date: 2004-03-08

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Chang-Rae Lee, named by The New Yorker as one of its 20 writers for the 21st Century, has confirmed his place in that company with Aloft, a masterful treatment of a man coming to terms with his own disaffection. In two previous novels, Native Speaker and A Gesture Life, Lee, a Korean-American, writes of lives being not what they seem: in the first, the protagonist is an undercover agent; in the second, the two halves of Franklin Hata's life never quite come together. Both novels won numerous awards, including Best First Novel, the Hemingway PEN Award, the American Book Award and the Asian-American Literary Award, among others. In Aloft, Lee revisits alienation, a fractured family, mixed heritage and the quest for identity.

Jerry Battle, 59-year-old widower and father of two, retired from the family business--the unmistakably earthbound Battle Brothers Brick and Mortar--buys a small airplane because "From up here, a half mile above the Earth, everything looks perfect to me." All is not well below. Jerry knows it, saying

...the recurring fantasy of my life... is one of perfect continuous travel, this unending hop from one point to another, the pleasures found not in the singular marvels of any destination but in the constancy of serial arrivals and departures, and the comforting companion knowledge that you'll never quite get intimate enough for any trouble to start brewing.

His view from aloft saves him from the gritty reality of the detritus of life--and from life itself.

This high-flyer must come to earth, however, when he finds that his daughter is newly pregnant, diagnosed with cancer, and refusing treatment; his son, who is running the company, has piled up enough debt that bankruptcy is imminent; and his father has gone missing from his assisted living facility. Jerry can no longer say, with impunity, "Jerry Battle hereby declines the Real." Lee takes us on great side trips into the pleasures of food and recreational sex; his wife Daisy's death; his longtime lover Rita's almost endless patience, weaving long, Miltonic sentences that start in one place and end up miles away--flights of fancy--trailing clouds of insight and poignancy. With Aloft Lee just keeps getting better. --Valerie Ryan

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Set on affluent Long Island, Aloft follows the life of a suburban, upper-middle-class man during a time of family crisis. Jerry Battle's favorite diversion is to fly his small plane over the neighboring towns and villages. When his daughter and her fiancé arrive from Oregon to announce their marriage plans, he looks back on his life and faces his disengagement with it-his urge to fly solo-and the people he loves.

Chang-rae Lee burst on the scene with Native Speaker, which won numerous awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, A Gesture Life, established him as one of the preeminent writers of his generation. Now, with Aloft, Lee has expanded his range and proves himself a master storyteller, able to observe his characters' flaws and weaknesses and, at the same time, celebrate their humanity. Aloft is an unforgettable portrait, filled with vitality and urgency, of a man who has secured his life's dreams but who must now figure out its meaning.

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"Set on affluent Long Island, Aloft follows the life of a suburban, upper-middle-class man during a time of family crisis. Jerry Battle's favorite diversion is to fly his small plane over the neighboring towns and villages. When his daughter and her fiancé arrive from Oregon to announce their marriage plans, he looks back on his life and faces his disengagement with it-his urge to fly solo-and the people he loves. Chang-rae Lee burst on the scene with Native Speaker, which won numerous awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, A Gesture Life, established him as one of the preeminent writers of his generation. Now, with Aloft, Lee has expanded his range and proves himself a master storyteller, able to observe his characters' flaws and weaknesses and, at the same time, celebrate their humanity. Aloft is an unforgettable portrait, filled with vitality and urgency, of a man who has secured his life's dreams but who must now figure out its meaning."

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not his best work.......2007-06-19

chang-rae lee has proven again that he is by far one of the best writers of our time. however, it was impossible to like or develop a reading relationship with any of these characters...especially the main character, jerry. there didn't seem to be anything redeeming about this guy. although he tried at the end but by then it seemed too late! i'm not exactly sure if lee was trying to convey that the human race is extremely flawed or this book just simply lacked that connection that you could actually fall in love with or at least like one character in the entire story.

The Joy of Avoidance.......2006-09-13

Lee's first 2 novels, "Native Speaker" and "A Gesture Life" are two of the best novels I've read in recent years, his precise characterisation and subtle plot threads making them hard to put down

Aloft, although enjoyable, doesn't reach the heights of these 2 works. Whilst the book's protaganist, Jerry Battle, is sharply drawn, the motivations and behaviours of the other main characters are hazy. Perhaps this is deliberate - a device for showing that Battle has never sufficiently emotionally connected with his friends and family to see them other than in broad brush strokes; but for me it makes the book ultimately unsatisfying

The main theme of the book is avoidance; Battle avoids confronting the emotional needs of his family and girlfriends, and especially the mental deterioration and demise of his now dead wife. Learning from him, his daughter avoids thinking about and acting on her recently diagnosed cancer; his son avoids thinking about the impending implosion of the family business, his son in law avoids the crisis in his writing

Battle is gradually learning to deal with the everyday crisis of family life, and the moral tone of the book is that his family would all be stronger and mentally healthier with greater engagement from him. Perhaps this is true - but the characters are so shallowly drawn that its difficult to care. I found little empathy with or understanding of Battle's daughter Theresa and son Jack, and particularly his longtime girlfriend Rita. Why Rita should have been attracted to Jerry, have chosen to stay with him for more than 20 years, and be tempted back to him, is a complete mystery.

Lee writes well, and as always his dialogue is completely convincing. But although Aloft is a pleasant enough pastime, I was left with a feeling that it was ultimately trivial for a writer of Lee's undoubted talent

Traveling is not just the destination~but the actual process of getting there, the literal travail........2006-06-05

When I finished the last sentence in this book I felt a sigh, a quiet, peaceful calm. This book will make you feel and that is what a good author as Chang-Rae Lee has accomplished in this brilliant novel.

The book, narrated by the main character Jerry Battle is one filled with metaphores yet the metaphores are brilliantly subtle. Perhaps Battle being Jerry's last name is the first metaphore that should hit the reader. Jerry, a likeable person, insightful with his thoughts (and I often felt Jerry was speaking directly to me) has been caught in the middle in almost every area of his life. There is the family business that his father, 'Pop' ran with a passion, eventually turned over to Jerry and then Jerry's son. Jerry didn't have the passion for the Battle Brother business and now his son has 'High-Tech'd this business into the ground. There is Jerry at age 59...not yet 60, not middle aged anymore and not elderly. Jerry is the father of Theresa and Jack, now adults and the son of Pop...a brass old man. Jerry has many strong opinions about everything and everyone in his life. His materialistic son, his 'intellectual' daughter, Rita, the woman he so desperately wants back in his life who has left him because she couldn't take this self-centered man who won't do anything for anybody unless he gets a little something out of it...but Jerry is not a terrible person...he is quite human and you'll find a lot of yourself in Jerry.

Aloft starts with Jerry purchasing a small plane where he escapes and everything is more beautiful from above. He has no significant relationship with his grown children and no relationship anymore with Rita, the woman who came into his life after his wife Daisy died when Theresa and Jack were children. But Jerry has regrets which he fights off in his thinking with his prose and metaphores of life. He has put everyone into their own classification, defined every significant person in his life...and now he is forced to face these people again when his daughter Theresa comes home to Long Island for a visit with her asian fiance and winds up staying. Jerry learns that his daughter has cancer and is pregnant and fights the fact that he has no power over this fact and most importantly Theresa's choice of carrying the baby which means she cannot recieve treatment for her illness until the baby is born thus jeapordizing her own life. Faced also with son Jack, living with his wife in a Mansion that is disgustingly plush, Jerry is quite bothered by his son's priorities in life. And there is Pop, Jerry was the one to make the choice to put him in an assisted living facility and Pop is misserable. All these people come back into Jerry's life like a storm out of no where and Jerry winds up facing the one person he hasn't faced for years...himself.

Middle age can be challenging!.......2006-01-16

Jerry Battle, a man just about to turn 60, considers his life at this age and looks at how his family relationships have changed up to this point. He has always remained emotionally (and, in his plane Donnie, physically) detached from those he should have been loving and nurturing the most.

This book is completely different from other books I've read by Lee. In his other books, I've been amazed by how well the author could focus in on what it is like to be a Korean estranged by others in American society. In this book, he makes his protagonist so amazingly Causasian that it is almost a relief to find some Korean characters in the story, being that the author himself is a Korean who was brought to the U.S. as a child.

This book is hard to get into and not quick reading, but magnificent if you persevere. I tried twice and failed. With my third try (and I was determined to get into it as I had previously loved Lee's other two novels), I found a surprisingly complex and fascinating character study, one which drew me deeper and deeper into the life of Jerry Battle. The book was almost like a 400-plus page run-on sentence with excellent grammar. At times, I found myself wishing that Jerry would just stop talking for a while! Nevertheless, I found the story and characters engrossing and real. The writing was detailed, thoughtful, and replete with witticisms, sage advice, and simple truths.

Although I don't share the author's gender, I certainly do share some of his views about life as seen through the perspective of Jerry Battle. His discussion of ostentatious living, the difficulty of handling an elderly parent , and the uncertainties of middle age were discussed with clarity and humor. This is the kind of writing I think would appeal to guys, although I did identify with the middle age thing, being within one year of the lead character's age. :-)

Observation on life.......2005-12-29

this is quite a different sort of book, something im not used to reading, it gets into very very good detail that sometimes is to much i think. There are alot of times in this book where it will stray away and go into a flashback of a sort or whatever is on Jerry's mind at the time, then when it goes into reality its like "uhhh where am I?". There are alot of times where it cuts off of talking and the story and just goes into narration, which sometimes is a good relief that gives you much backround and sometimes that i found myself losing attention while reading.

All of the dialog in this isnt what i would call riviting or exciting most of the time, but it caught my attention and kept me interested anyways. For some reason i just got completly attached to it. Jerry is the kind of guy that most people have something they can really relate to him. I think it is one of those books that in the near future i will have to read again to get the full meaning out of it. Very very deep novel, i would definetly reccomend to have something to discuss about.

$Winds Aloft: A Pilot\'s Diary$
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Winds Aloft a Pilot's Diary
Reminds me of a Mark Twain snapshot of an American family
What A Great Read!
Aviation story telling for pilots and passengers
GREAT STORIES OF A PILOT

Winds Aloft: A Pilot\'s Diary
C. R. Williams
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1412034531
Release Date: 2006-07-06

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THe book is much like a diary of Military and Airline flying inasmuch as it is a collection of short stories. Most of the stories are of a humorous nature, with a few involving some interesting action.

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Winds Aloft a Pilot's Diary.......2006-05-15

If you are a pilot, this certainly is a must read book. Captain Charles "Chick" Williams has unfolded the story of his flying experiences in both an exciting and humorous way. The early years tell of his youth as an "Army Brat" and then on with his own military life, airline experiences and finally retirement. I had the opportunity to meet Chick earlier this year and found his story telling abilities in person equal to his ability to reduce them to writing. I highly recommend this book.

Reminds me of a Mark Twain snapshot of an American family.......2006-04-25

The book is a delightful snapshot of an American family and their travels and travails, as told by pilot and patriot Chick Williams. In the style of Mark Twain, we see and feel what it was like to grow up in small towns, and travel about the world. We are exposed to the behind the scenes antics, and drama, as the jet age comes to full maturity and becomes a part of our lives. As told through the eyes of a commercial airline and Air Force pilot.

What A Great Read!.......2006-04-23

Winds Aloft is a great read for everyone. What a wonderful way to bring to light the dreams of a young man who knew flying was to be his life long career. Some stories are short and others are longer but they all bring the reader into the cockpit of several types of airframes and put us into one of the seats. Well Done Chuck Williams!

Aviation story telling for pilots and passengers.......2006-04-21

Charles Williams gives readers a great look at the experiences of both military and commercial airline pilots. The stories he tells provides a look behind usually closed doors. As a frequent flyer, I am always interested in his insights and stories about commercial aviation. He tells them well here and this book should be a fine reading experience for both pilots and passengers.

GREAT STORIES OF A PILOT.......2006-04-21

CHICK WILLIAMS DIARY IS SPLENDID READING WITH LOTS OF HUMOR. I KNEW HIM AS A BOY AND IT WAS GREAT TO FOLLOW HIS EXCITING LIFE. PILOTS DO HAVE FUN AND CHICK WAS NO EXCEPTION!

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One More *5 Star Vote* for "Elephants Aloft"
"Elephants Aloft" and the joy of prepositions for kids
My favorite book.
We love this book
Did anyone notice the GROUNDNUTS?...

Elephants Aloft
Kathi Appelt
Manufacturer: Harcourt Children's Books
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Readers will be swept along with Rama and Raja, two Indian elephants as they travel between mountains, behind waterfalls, and across the seas in Kathi Appelt’s simple, clever story. Bold illustrations and a tale told in prepositions add up to a great balloon adventure sure to delight young children.

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One More *5 Star Vote* for "Elephants Aloft".......2005-06-17

We just wanted to add our voices in support of this excellent children's book. My son and daughter (3 and 5) really enjoy this beautiful and heartwarming story, and we highly recommend it.

Great for entertaining, and for teaching toddlers and preschoolers positional prepositions! Well worth the price.

"Elephants Aloft" and the joy of prepositions for kids.......2004-06-16

A preposition is a "function" word that typically combines with a noun phrase to form a phrase which usually expresses a modification or predication. However, in "Elephants Aloft" prepositions like "above," "between," and "below" are not combined with noun phrases but rather with delightful illustrations of elephants in a balloon. Now, if a picture of a pair of elephants in a balloon is worth a thousand words, then there would be reason to believe that in those thousands words there would be at least one noun phrase.

Written by Kathi Appelt and illustrated by Keith Baker with pictures done in Liquitex acrylics on illustration board, "Elephants Aloft" begins before the title page with Auntie Rwanda in Africa sending a letter to her nephew and niece Rama and Raja in Asia. If young readers do not know the different between an African Elephant and an Asian Elephant, then this is an opportunity for them to find out if they pay attention to the differences in the ears of the two traveling elephants and their aunt. Each picture of the journey has a single word, written large, and lots of details (the colorful bird that delivered the letter to Rama and Raja appears in each picture and young readers should enjoy looking for him).

This book is ideal for beginning readers since it emphasizes a single word on each page and kids should be able to make the association between words like "beside" or "around" and the pictures of the elephants in their balloon going by the Taj Mahal or coming around a snow capped mountain. Granted, little kids are not going to understand exactly what a prepositions is (I had to look it up), but they will still pick up the idea that all of the words appearing in "Elephants Aloft" are similar in terms of how they function.

Note: The back flap of "Elephants Aloft" says this was Kathi Appelt's first book. You should check out some of the other ones, not just the picture books intended for kids, but some of her poetry books intended for older kids and (dare I say it) adults as well, such as "Poems From Homeroom" and "My Father's Summers."

My favorite book........2003-01-30

This is probably one of my top 3 favorite childrens books ever. I could sit and look at the illustrations for hours. It has a fun story using very few words. I have purchased many copies as baby presents and gifts and they are always greeted with delight.

We love this book.......2001-03-06

My 2 1/2 year old enjoys reading this book, as do my husband and I. The pictures are full of detail, and each page allows for more than one discussion about the preposition word printed on the page. As the saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words" - we have a great time discussing each picture and talking about what is happening.

Did anyone notice the GROUNDNUTS?..........1998-02-02

Apart from being able to create a new story at each reading, Darren (3½-years-old) enjoys playing "Spot-The-Groundnut" on every double-spread. The first person who spots each nut gets a treat - to eat a REAL groundnut! That's where the fun is... Watch out for the last nut!!!!

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Inspiration
Perfect for both ferret lovers and pilots.
A Mystical Adventure
What a wonderful talking book!
Good, but not as good as Rescue Ferrets at Sea

Air Ferrets Aloft
Richard Bach
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ASIN: 0743227530

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This is Stormy Ferret's story. Cargo pilot, captain of an Air Ferrets SkyFreighter, she had earned her name by delivering her freight on time through every weather the night could set against her. Her destiny, she thought, was her dependability. That was true until, on a run south from Seattle to Salinas, she plunges into a supernatural tempest like nothing she has ever known.

Flying north in his sleek FerrJet, Captain Strobe Ferret hits equally violent weather. As chief pilot of the giant MusTelCo, his long experience at the controls had taught him to accept whatever the sky set before him. He had adjusted to life alone in the wild pure arena of air.

The two pilots meet by chance in the most powerful twin storm ever to sweep Airway Victor 23, her voice in the night helping him survive, his voice helping her. Coincidence turns to destiny as they battle through the clouds toward an unscheduled landing and a meeting that will forever change their lives -- and the lives of thousands of others.

Air Ferrets Aloft is a tale of skill and commitment, of powerful coincidence set in motion by unseen forces from another dimension, of the life-changing consequences when like souls meet, of love discovered after all hope for it had passed.

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"This is Stormy Ferret's story. Cargo pilot, captain of an Air Ferrets SkyFreighter, she had earned her name by delivering her freight on time through every weather the night could set against her. Her destiny, she thought, was her dependability. That was true until, on a run south from Seattle to Salinas, she plunges into a supernatural tempest like nothing she has ever known. Flying north in his sleek FerrJet, Captain Strobe Ferret hits equally violent weather. As chief pilot of the giant MusTelCo, his long experience at the controls had taught him to accept whatever the sky set before him. He had adjusted to life alone in the wild pure arena of air. The two pilots meet by chance in the most powerful twin storm ever to sweep Airway Victor 23, her voice in the night helping him survive, his voice helping her. Coincidence turns to destiny as they battle through the clouds toward an unscheduled landing and a meeting that will forever change their lives -- and the lives of thousands of others. Air Ferrets Aloft is a tale of skill and commitment, of powerful coincidence set in motion by unseen forces from another dimension, of the life-changing consequences when like souls meet, of love discovered after all hope for it had passed. "

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Inspiration.......2007-03-11

Another tremendous book by Bach. As a Bach fan for years and a ferret lover too, I find these stories inspiring and touching.

Perfect for both ferret lovers and pilots........2004-08-04

I have been a keen ferret lover and my father is a pilot, so this book gives something for both. While the pilot vocabulary can be difficult for those with little experience in flying, the story is simple and enjoyable. I like to think of Baxter as the true hero, I named my own ferret after him. And the spritual transcendence of Bach's books like Jonathan Livingston Seagull are again reflected, which seem to parallel with concepts of the afterlife and how our departed loved ones are much closer to us than we think. A wonderful read with a very heartwarming narrative for both children and adults, and for those who simply love ferrets and flying. Thank you, Richard Bach.

A Mystical Adventure.......2004-05-04

Air Ferrets Aloft is right up there with my other Bach favorites Illusions and Running from Safety. It is a gentle, beautiful story of destiny and true nature told in a wonderful way. I particularly like the audio version where Richard reads the story himself. I bought the book when it first came out and didn't read it until this week because, frankly, I'm not a fan of ferrets (sorry Richard!). Waiting was a mistake. Don't let the fact that this is a children's book or that you don't like ferrets, deter you. It is CLASSIC BACH.

What a wonderful talking book!.......2003-09-12

I expect excellence from the author of Johnathan Livingston Seagull and this pleasantly read book is no exception. Like Johnathan, it has a child-like quality of storytelling that is amenable to the adult heart and ear as well. It is the first of the ferret series I've come across and I listen to it on my daily journey to and from home and work or school. The underlying themes of spiritual awareness and analogizing flight to an expression of spirituality is akin to JLS and a comfort to a reader who has read JLS to her children, husband, and grandchildren. I look forward to finding more unabridged tapes such as this as it is the only way this late-in-life law student has the time to listen to a good book anymore! My husband gets this tape next, then my eldest granddaughter. Or maybe I'll buy the CD for her...Who knows, with the fabulous descriptions of what goes on during flight she might opt to become a pilot some day. Great fun! Richard Bach has an excellent voice for this, as well. I'm hearing impaired and can understand him with the greatest of ease!

Good, but not as good as Rescue Ferrets at Sea.......2002-10-15

I really enjoyed "Rescue Ferrets at Sea". In this second book, Bach spends too much time describing flying, the mechanics of flight and ALL the things that can go wrong during a storm. I agree with another reviewer: enough already.

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A major history of the impact of Caribbean migration to the United States. Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farakhan -- the roster of immigrants from the Caribbean who have made a profound impact on the development of radical politics in the United States is extensive. In this magisterial and lavishly illustrated work, Winston James focuses on the twentieth century's first waves of immigrants from the Caribbean and their contribution to political dissidence in America. Examining the way in which the characteristics of the societies they left shaped their perceptions of the land to which they traveled, Winston James draws sharp differences between Hispanic and English-speaking arrivals. He explores the interconnections between the Cuban independence struggle, Puerto Rican nationalism, Afro-American feminism, and black communism in the first turbulent decades of the twentieth century. He also provides fascinating insights into the impact of Puerto Rican radicalism in New York City and recounts the remarkable story of Afro-Cuban radicalism in Florida.

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A STORY OF CARIBBEANS IN THE US, 1900- 1930s.......2007-09-21

Winston James' Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia will clarify our understanding of Afro-Caribbean migrants in the US. It sheds more light on not just Hispanics but non-Hispanics as well.

His thesis is expository. He explains the "scale and determinants of Caribbean migration to the United States and the migrants' political behavior from the turn of the century up to the Great Depression."

Some well-known but poorly constructed and substantiated arguments, advanced by scholars about the political behavior of Caribbeans in their States of origin and as migrants in America are rejected by James. It could well be that literature on the subject--Afro-Caribbeans political views/behaviour--is just sparse. Then James is right, much more scholarly work on the people who came to America from the Caribbean should be done.

The book is fairly comprehensive in its study, by looking beyond the English speaking Caribbean to the Spanish speakers as well, covering the period 1900-1932.

His stated objectives for the book are:

i.) To present historical evidence and analysis to of arguments claiming that Caribbean migrants changed from "conservatism" in the Caribbean to "radicalism" in America;
ii.) To broaden the discussion beyond the Anglophone Caribbean to the Hispanic Caribbean;
iii.) To contribute to the wider understanding of the African Diaspora; and
iv.) To throw new light on the historical and cultural complexity and heterogeneity of the Caribbean Region and variations in it's Diaspora in the USA.

Of the Afro-Cubans in Florida, James tell a beautiful, yet sad story of a community of Cuban tabaqueros, cigar makers, who worked for Vincente Martínez Ybor the Cuban, anti-colonialism cigar producer who established a Cuban cigar factory in Tampa Florida. Some of these workers were leaders in the "Union de Tabaqueros," founded in 1879.

Strong class solidarity existed between whites and Afro-Cubans during this period. This cohesion was reinforced by the leadership of Jose Marti, the Cuban Nationalist who denounced racism and attempted to militarily remove the Spanish and to establish a Cuba, free from racism and intolerance.

James explained how the racial harmony of Cuban workers in Ybor City succumbed to bigotry and hatred by 1923.

The change was not instigated by white America's racial practices alone but by a combination of:
a) The change in the principled leadership of the Cuban-American Community after Jose Marti, was killed in battle to liberate Cuba;
b) The implementation of Apartheid in Ybor City by America's Jim Crow laws;
c) Penetration of the Cuban Community by other people living in the surrounding cities;
d) White Cubans realigning themselves for the privileges associated with whiteness.

I recommend this work for students, general readers and especially those with an interest in history, politics, literature and the development of the Society!

See Also:

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

The Groundings With My Brothers

Cuba: A Revolution in Motion

Professor James has written a pathbreaking history ..........1999-03-08

Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia is required reading for anyone interested in the history of Black radicalism in the United States, particularly the singular role played by people of Caribbean descent. Professor James skillfully examines the history and political economy of race relations in the French and Spanish speaking Caribbean. Here is the background of the African Blood Brotherhood led by Cyril Briggs and the Universal Negro Improvement Association led by Marcus Garvey. Moreover, this is the background of the singular Arthur Schomburg (actually Arturo Schomburg) who founded the pivotal Harlem library and research center. There is an important analysis of Hubert H. Harrison's role in inspiring Harlem's Black radicalism. Furthermore, this is the complex history of Jesus Colon's ideas on race and class. In conclusion, this book is essential to an understanding of 20th Black radicalism, modern Black leadership, and the background to Black Power. While we are waiting for Jeff Perry's biography of Hubert H. Harrison, the Black Socrates of the Harlem Renaissance, this is as good as it gets!

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Living Aloft: Human Requirements For Extended Spaceflight
Mary M. Connors , Albert A. Harrison , and Faren R. Akins
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