The Cool Knight

摘要

Who wouldn't want to be sir Richard Branson? He's handsome and filthy rich, and he adores hanging his butt over the edge of the envelope instead of rolling around inside a bank vault, tossing fistfuls of cash in the air. "I've always held to the notion that you only live once," Branson-er, Sir Richard-writes in this fine book, "and that if you want your life to have any meaning, you simply have to throw yourself into things." And he does. Name it, he's done it. Part autobiography and part aviation history, Reach for the Skies offers Branson's personal anecdotes, like stealing World War II British ace Douglas Bader's artificial limbs as a childhood prank, crashing a balloon on a frozen Canadian lake after crossing the Pacific, and-get this-being the first person to water ski behind a blimp.