How to Fly
Taking Wing with Birds, Bats, Insects and Humans
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How to Fly
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A unique and all-encompassing exploration of the wonders of flight and the way different species have evolved different solutions to the problem of defying gravity – including humans.
Flight fascinates us. We thrill to birds, we adore butterflies, we’re baffled by bats and we can hardly believe in pterodactyls. We worship angels and we compare love, religious ecstasy and artistic achievement to flight. We love the idea of flight so much we invented machines that at last allowed us to fly. Many died to make human flight possible.
In How to Fly, bestselling writer Simon Barnes brings together all aspects of aerial life – evolution, technology, mythology, religion, nature and imagination – in a celebration of the wonders of flight. Barnes looks at the physics of flying and how flight has evolved quite separately four times over (or five, if we count humans). He examines how these creatures do it: from the nocturnal agility of bats and the bees that beat their wings 230 times per second, to the extinct reptile quetzalcoatlus with its 10-metre wingspan and the Arctic terns that travel 75,000km every year. He also explores how the great poets, mystics, saints, musicians and athletes have all, in their different ways, succeeded in getting high and getting us high.
Sweeping in scope and packed with fresh insights, How to Fly is a book that sets free the eagle within us all.
PRAISE FOR SIMON BARNES:
'Barnes makes you look and listen with new eyes and ears' STEPHEN FRY
'Quite simply, a writer in a class of his own' CLARE BALDING
'Barnes describes the wonders of nature with infectious enthusiasm' GUARDIAN
'Barnes is a passionate writer on wildlife' DAILY MAIL©2026 Simon Barnes (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Barnes has done serious homework on the physics of flight, but he has carefully jumbled together all his subjects across 148 micro-chapters, none of which is longer than five pages. The rainbow spectrum is dizzying... it works perfectly to emphasise how completely fixated with air travel we are (Mark Cocker)
How To Fly is another masterclass, examining how different species from birds, insects and mammals have tackled the fundamental problem of defying gravity – allowing them to soar free from earthbound shackles... Rarely has the natural world been so stunningly described
This is a great read... Barnes covers everything from flight basics, birds, insects, bats, pterodactyls, to human attempts at flight like hot air balloons, airplanes, and gliders. He effortlessly weaves together the hard science with history, religion, mythology, art, literature, poetry, and philosophy
Barnes makes you look and listen with new eyes and ears (Stephen Fry)
Quite simply, a writer in a class of his own
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