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Quite simply the most valuable book I own.... I'm think I'm now on my 3rd copy - the previous ones having all fallen apart through use - and still I can keep going back to this book and reading it still gives the same happiness. If I could keep only 1 book it would be this one.
Flying experiences from days past - flights of fancy? I read this while I was doing a gliding course at Sutton Bank Yorks, to cover the time when the weather was not so good for flying. Richard is more well known for 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', an oft used text to prove perspective on life. This text provides a view of his own flying experiences as documented in the late 1960's and early 1970's (about when I was born!). It costs a bit more to fly now (aftrerall it was written 40 years ago), but the sentiment in the collection of essays is the... more info
A flight of fantasy. As a thank you to the pilot of the aircraft for my first ever flight, I gave my copy of this book away. Quite literally 'A Gift of Wings'!
Magical!
This book inspired me to fly This is a collection of Richard Bach's magazine articles - saved from the Scout Jumble Sale waste paper collection and given more permanance in book form. It is truly inspirational; I read it first in about 1975, and shortly afterwards took up gliding. By 1979 I had my PPL (Private Pilot's Licence), and a share in an aerobatic de Havilland Chipmunk aeroplane. Bach's book was the inspiration, and I have re-read that copy so many times that the pages are falling out. I bought a new copy a while ago so that if... more info
