As the falcon flies
Even the rhythm of this simile conveys something of a great bird's single, confident swoop to land precisely on a...
Hawk-like glidings
Birds feature impressively in Williamson's minutely loving study of the life and landscape of an otter. Some are preyed upon,...
The earth in the palm of your hand
A superb description of maps, by Beryl Markham, one of the 20th century's most intrepid travellers and pilots.Â
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Silver-shouldered flight
A perfect morning on the remote Scottish bay Maxwell made his refuge for the last ten or so years of...
What is peace?
Listening time: under 4 minutes. This is Saint-Exupéry's definition of peace, in which everything is in its place and friends...
Like beads of a rosary
Perhaps a calming image, until you realize what it is being used to describe.  I recall my father's recounting his childhood...
Skeins of geese sewn into the air
Two ways to describe the habitual, seasonal flight paths of geese: a skein woven into the air like stitches, which...
Detonations of flight
An original way to capture the sudden soaring of a flock of birds. A few weeks ago, a flock of...
As indispensable as …
A life-line for a Second World War pilot was the rubber tube. Saint-Exupéry's account vividly describes the physicality and encumbrance...
Flung into the fire
Saint-Exupéry, himself one of the fire-flung pilots of the French air force in the early, desperate days of the war,...
Of freedom and flight
Again, Mr. Rochester has to face the fact that the more he tries to bind Jane to him, the more...
Poems for my family 005 – McGee
Inspired by a high altitude test flight, this dazzling poem has added poignancy because John Gillespie McGee (1922-41) died soon...
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