Flying: The Aviation Trilogy (Scribner Classics)
by Richard Bach
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Author: Richard BachEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-10-29
ISBN: 0743247477
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Scribner
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Book Review: If you love flying. . .or love someone who loves flying. . .this is the book to get
Summary: 5 Stars
This work is an "omnibus" edition of Richard Bach's three great classics on flying. Readers familiar with Bach tend to think of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (any of us in college in the 70s remember that one!) but long before Jonathan took wing, Bach had his own flying adventures, first as a military pilot during the early years of the cold war, and then, remarkably as a "barnstormer" flying an antique plane around the country. These three books recount those adventures of his earlier years.
I first discovered them when learning to fly in my early twenties. Time, circumstances, life in general took me away from my passion of flying until recently, when I again took to the air in a light weight aircraft and am just about finished with restoring a light weight replica of a P-51 Mustang. I fell back into Bach's works and discovered, yet again, all the wonderful memories, and yes, telling me as well about why, after a bit of a gut tightening moment when something doesn't feel right with the plane, I take a deep breath and behold, there is the splendor of the world below me at dawn, the beauty of circling a cloud that no one, before or ever after, will see as I now see it, and that sweet sense of being one with my plane as I slide into final approach and touch the earth again.
If you love flying, this is your book. If you love someone who loves flying (and can't figure out exactly why they do such crazy things!) buy this book, read it, get the insights, then hand it over to the pilot who will be thrilled that you now "understand."
I am delighted that Bach's three great works are back out there again in this single edition.
Bill in North Carolina
co-owner of a Loehle P-51 Mustang "Gloria Ann III"
Summary of Flying: The Aviation Trilogy (Scribner Classics)
Here for the first time in a single volume are three of Richard Bach's most compelling works about flight.From his edgy days as a USAF Alert pilot above Europe in an armed F84-F Thunderstreak during the Cold War to a meander across America in a 1929 biplane, Bach explores the extreme edges of the air, his airplane, and himself in glorious writing about how it feels to climb into a machine, leave the earth, and fly.
Only a handful of writers have translated their experiences in the cockpit into books that have mesmerized generations.
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