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Mark Vanhoenacker Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Mark Vanhoenacker is a long-haul pilot and author. Pilot + author of Imagine A City and Skyfaring, columnist @FinancialTimes, contributor @NYTimes, fan of anything with windows and seats.

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Book Cover for: The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton

The Art of Travel

Alain de Botton
Mark VanhoenackerMark Vanhoenacker

@HRAskMe thanks Martin, I hope you'll enjoy it! Re Alain de Botton, the great thing is you really can't go wrong! I'd start with The Art of Travel (no surprise, me saying that) or The Consolations of Philosophy.

Paperback, 2004

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Down to the sea in Ships, Sydney Glanville Fielding

Down to the sea in Ships

Sydney Glanville Fielding
Mark VanhoenackerMark Vanhoenacker

a remarkable and touching story by @HoratioClare, author of Down to the Sea in Ships (one of my all-time favourite books) https://twitter.com/HoratioClare/status/1484103968280264707

Hardcover, 2016

$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene

Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene
Mark VanhoenackerMark Vanhoenacker

'to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people...' (from Graham Greene's 'Our Man in Havana', and with thanks to my friend Harriet for sharing...) https://t.co/4UmLqOzaoS

Paperback, 2007

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World

Thomas F. Madden
Mark VanhoenackerMark Vanhoenacker

@edentravels from Thomas Madden's book, 'Istanbul'. (highly recommended!) https://t.co/U96gxyC8gh

Paperback, 2017

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World, Mark Vanhoenacker

Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World

Mark Vanhoenacker
Mark VanhoenackerMark Vanhoenacker

The idea that a city exists in the imagination even of those who live in them and think they know them well or have lived their whole lives in them, is an idea I find increasingly lovely and is something I wanted to capture in the book.

Hardcover, 2022

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Consolations of Philosophy, Alain de Botton

The Consolations of Philosophy

Alain de Botton
Mark VanhoenackerMark Vanhoenacker

@HRAskMe thanks Martin, I hope you'll enjoy it! Re Alain de Botton, the great thing is you really can't go wrong! I'd start with The Art of Travel (no surprise, me saying that) or The Consolations of Philosophy.

Paperback, 2001

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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