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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 500
EAN num: 9780440204329
ISBN number: 0440204321
Label: Dell
Manufacturer: Dell
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: November 02, 1989
Publishing house: Dell
Release Date: October 02, 1989
Sale Popularity Level: 69338
Studio: Dell
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Once in a generation a book, a vision, a writer, capture the imagination and emotions of millions. Jonathan Livingston Seagull was such a book. Richard Bach's unique vision again shines forth, touching with magic the drama of life in all its limitless horizons. Once again Richard Bach has written a masterpiece to help you touch that part of your home that is the sky.
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Richard Bach delivers an inspiring story using flight as his spiritual metaphor. A wonderful story. Not as good as Jonathan Livingston Seagull but still worth the read. I file it with my spiritual books to inspire.
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When people ask why I love flying so much, I'm always tempted to give them a copy of A Gift of Wings. My father gave me this book on my 16th birthday along with vouchers for my very first flying lessons. Nearly twenty years later, I value this book nearly as much as the memories I have of learning to fly. In this collection of short stories from the sixties and seventies, Richard Bach manages to capture the allure of aviation with an extremely rare talent. I have now read this book at least a dozen times and it never fails to rekindle my passion for flight. Before any student pilot is taught anything about the practicalities of flying a plane, they should very first be required to read this book. If you're a pilot, you'll immeadiately love this book and if you aren't a pilot, it will make you want to become one.
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One of the greatest books written for people who love flying, or to inspire someone to pursue learning to fly.
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Richard Bach has a gift of using metaphore to write his experience.... You don't have to be a Pilot nor a Seagull to get caught in his web.... His uinque way of enfolding one into his story, is most delightful...
IF your ready for a very unique experience, in reading, be careful.... You'll have a hard time putting the book down, and not wanting to read more of him,and in the process, you just might learn something about yourself.....
I've been hooked,(as you will) for years on his books...
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I'll paraphrase the intro from the front of this book: "This book consists of a bunch of short essays written for magazines like AOPA and other amateur pilot publications. Some of the stories were written a long time ago and are not well-written but I have not updated them."
In many respects, that sums up my take on this book. Many poorly written stories about how smart amateur pilots feel after doing something stupid and not getting killed. I guess you have to be a pilot to buy into this. I am not a pilot.
Reading this book is like being on a Greyhound bus for 9 hours subsequent to a Cessna salesman. It's all about "clear air", and "God's skies", etc. You're not alive if you're not flying. Gimme a break.
I recommend you go read Ernest K. Gann's "Fate is the Hunter", about professional pilots who spend their whole lives in the air and still get killed, or nearly so, because of circumstances they have no control over.
Just drop this book off at the General Aviation office at your local airport and give those guys something to read till the weather clears.
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