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This love letter to the cities of the world - from the airline pilot-author of Skyfaring - is "a journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energized, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives" (Alain de Botton, author of The Art of Travel) .In his small New England hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spent his childhood dreaming of elsewhere - of the distant, real cities he found on the illuminated globe in his bedroom, and of one perfect metropolis that existed only in his imagination. These cities were the sources of endless comfort and escape, and of a lasting fascination. Streets unspooled, towers shone, and anonymous crowds bustled in the places where Mark hoped he could someday be anyone - perhaps even himself.