Description:British pilot Anson Roe will ignore borders and strain relationships to achieve a career in Ag-aviation. But when he dreams of crashing his airplane in a remote corner of the world, all he can think of is the whereabouts of his girlfriend, Vivianne. He awakens at a small airstrip in "No Man's Land" Oklahoma, a year backward in time, suffering from apparent heatstroke and random amnesia. Brought to his knees, he is rescued by World War II Spitfire pilot and poet, John Gillespie Magee, Jr., author of the famous sonnet, "High Flight." Pilot Officer Magee treats Anson to the force of his intellect and to harrowing tales of his barnstorming feats. In a story that interweaves true events with fantasy, the two pilots discover their parallel lives and loves. The novel's title, A Day in Eternity, comes from a sonnet John Magee wrote in 1939 called, "Brave New World." Our lives were strange and noble; we believed In the feel of the earth beneath us, trusted the sun As it played on the leaves and flowers; and we conceived Truth and true Beauty, End of things begun ... We, too, have laughed and sung our hundred songs The sons we bore were perfect in our eyes We hoped for them, but did not realize ... We saw them slain, - with faith we bore our wrongs Watched we the clouds, and did not understand We longed for happiness; we knew despair, Lay, with our dreams, in the gutters; and were deceived By eyes of women; whispered hand in hand, And loved the moonlight on a lover's hair ... We were but a day in Eternity ... still, we believed ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Day in Eternity. To get started finding A Day in Eternity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: British pilot Anson Roe will ignore borders and strain relationships to achieve a career in Ag-aviation. But when he dreams of crashing his airplane in a remote corner of the world, all he can think of is the whereabouts of his girlfriend, Vivianne. He awakens at a small airstrip in "No Man's Land" Oklahoma, a year backward in time, suffering from apparent heatstroke and random amnesia. Brought to his knees, he is rescued by World War II Spitfire pilot and poet, John Gillespie Magee, Jr., author of the famous sonnet, "High Flight." Pilot Officer Magee treats Anson to the force of his intellect and to harrowing tales of his barnstorming feats. In a story that interweaves true events with fantasy, the two pilots discover their parallel lives and loves. The novel's title, A Day in Eternity, comes from a sonnet John Magee wrote in 1939 called, "Brave New World." Our lives were strange and noble; we believed In the feel of the earth beneath us, trusted the sun As it played on the leaves and flowers; and we conceived Truth and true Beauty, End of things begun ... We, too, have laughed and sung our hundred songs The sons we bore were perfect in our eyes We hoped for them, but did not realize ... We saw them slain, - with faith we bore our wrongs Watched we the clouds, and did not understand We longed for happiness; we knew despair, Lay, with our dreams, in the gutters; and were deceived By eyes of women; whispered hand in hand, And loved the moonlight on a lover's hair ... We were but a day in Eternity ... still, we believed ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Day in Eternity. To get started finding A Day in Eternity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.