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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Take Flight : Incredible Stories of Australian Women Who Reach for the Sky
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''We'd taken three weeks to climb the mountain and three minutes to fly down. I felt small but enormous and so much more than this little human shell.' Heather Swan, wingsuit BASE jumper

'From balancing on a wing tip to paragliding with an eagle, Take Flight tells the stories of Australian women who have leapt, tumbled and dived, and reached for the stars.

'These inspirational women share stories of their lives in the skies. Helicopter pilot Alida Soemawinata ascends over Kata Tjua. Speed skydiver Jessica Johnston joins a formation of 'horny gorillas' hurtling through an azure African sky. Paramotor pilot Sacha Dench follows the flight path of Bewick's swans for thousands of kilometres. Hot air balloonist Donna Tasker fills the envelope and glides over Western Australia. Gomeroi astrophysicist Krystal De Napoli points up to the Seven Sisters in the dark night sky.

'Author and pilot Kathy Mexted weaves a moving narrative of the determination, skill and expertise of these women who have beaten the odds to find success and joy in the skies.' (Publication summary)

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: NewSouth Publishing , 2024 .
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      Extent: 272p.
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      • Published October 2024

      ISBN: 9781742237619
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