Icares' dream

Icares' dream

Who soars best between an eagle, a paraglider and an airliner?

That's just one of the many questions this book will answer: airplanes, birds, hot-air balloons, paragliders, kites, helicopters, boomerangs, insects, drones, plants... the book provides an exhaustive and concise presentation of all the objects and living beings that roam the skies.

The book that makes the world of the skies accessible. Through anecdotes and illustrations, you'll discover all the secrets of the aerial world. You'll understand how flying machines were inspired by the living world, and how the passion of pioneers democratized flight.

For those with a passion for flight: pilots, their children, dreamers, ornithologists, astronauts! Immediate take-off!

Matthieu Ozanne is a paraglider and microlight pilot. A trained engineer with a passion for all things flying, he can spend hours observing and analyzing the flight of a bird of prey, a paraglider, a plane or simply the evolution of clouds.