Do you sometimes dream that you fly like a bird? That you travel effortlessly over treetops, that you rise and then dive, glide, and swirl lightly in the third dimension? That you spread the wings of your imagination and marvel at magical places while gazing into fairy-tale lands? What a wonderful feeling!

For every creature that flies, flight is a given, as evolution made it an automatic movement of its life. However, for humans, it was an incredible dream until aerodynamic design made the "miracle" of flight a reality. From the mythical Icarus to the "majestic bird of Argentina," from the Wright brothers to the Boeing 747 and from the fairy fly Tinkerbell to the formidable hawk, both humans and all the winged creatures of nature have learned to defy gravity and rise into the skies.

How did they manage? Richard Dawkins, who is well-known for not believing in "miracles," uncovers all the secrets of the "magical" (but entirely true) recipe that allows birds, insects, animals, and even humans (with their flying machines) to soar. He reveals how something hovers or glides and the ways it defies gravity, as conceived by humans for centuries or adapted to animals by evolution over millions of years.

If you thirst for an escape from the everyday, Incredible Flights is the ideal flying vehicle for an unimaginably challenging journey of the mind, with the dazzling wings of science, ideas, and imagination.