From the earliest airfields to the post-9/11 turn, this book investigates how airports figure in the American cultural imagination. >

The bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and The Art of Travel spends a week at an airport in a wittily intriguing meditation on the "non-place"

In Airplane Reading, Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich bring together a range of essays about air travel. Discerning and full of wonder, this prismatic colle

"Explores the surprising connections between the common experience of air travel and how we think about nature"--

Illustrates the daily activities at an airport, including a rock star arrival, a flight delay, and a thunderstorm.