Airborne Paul Joseph Travers and The Echo Maker

and The Echo Maker

It demonstrates useful and practical ways to engage students far beyond what can be learned from reading textbook dialogue

From the microcosmic level of electricity and flicks of a thumb to the grand stages of identity politics and global capitalism

Nelson's exciting seafaring trilogy concludes

Airborne Paul Joseph Travers and The Echo MakerAirborne is how William F. Buckley, Jr. describes his sail across the wide Atlantic with his son and five friends. The trip, for fifteen years a dream, for fifteen months a planned operation, was always a risk: one doesn't set out haphazardly in a small sailboat across 4,400 miles of ocean, and Buckley's account of perils of the sea as experienced by himself since he acquired his first sailboat at age thirteen is at once graphic, instructive, and