Falling for Icarus: A Journey Among the Cretans

By Rory MacLean

Book Overview

A story that combines travel with personal memoir. Rory MacLean sets off to Crete, the land where Icarus and Daedalus made their maiden flight. There, with help from his Cretan neighbours, he attempts to build a woodhopper from scratch and make it fly.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670914835
• ISBN13: 9780670914838
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: London : Penguin Viking
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.3" x 5.6"