A Gift of Wings
Published on 5. September 2012
304 pages
978-0-307-82434-9 (ISBN)
Description
From the bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, comes an inspiring collection of short stories of being a pilot.
With perfect insight, Richard Bach captures the true esssence of flying and the magic of being in the air. Philosophical and adventurous, each story will grab you and make you want to soar. Once again Richard Bach has written a masterpiece to help you touch that part of your home that is the sky.
A gift for pilots, aviation afficionados, and anyone that loves to fly, this book captures the magic of life in all its limitless horizons.
With perfect insight, Richard Bach captures the true esssence of flying and the magic of being in the air. Philosophical and adventurous, each story will grab you and make you want to soar. Once again Richard Bach has written a masterpiece to help you touch that part of your home that is the sky.
A gift for pilots, aviation afficionados, and anyone that loves to fly, this book captures the magic of life in all its limitless horizons.
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Richard Bach | K. O. Eckland
A Gift of Wings
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10/1989
Bantam Books
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Bach Richard | Richard Bach
A Gift of Wings
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12/1980
Delacorte Press
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Richard Bach is the author of Stranger to the Ground, Biplane, Nothing by Chance, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, A Gift of Wings, Illusions, There's No Such Place as Far Away, The Bridge Across Forever, One, and Running from Safety.
Content
- Intro
- Editor's note
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- It is said that we have ten seconds
- People who fly
- I've never heard the wind
- I shot down the Red Baron, and so what
- Prayers
- Return of a lost pilot
- Words
- Across the country on an oil pressure gage
- There's always the sky
- Steel, aluminum, nuts and bolts
- The girl from a long time ago
- Adrift at Kennedy airport
- Perspective
- The pleasure of their company
- A light in the toolbox
- Anywhere is okay
- Too many dumb pilots
- Think black
- Found at Pharisee
- School for perfection
- South to Toronto
- Cat
- Tower 0400
- The snowflake and the dinosaur
- MMRRrrrowCHKkrelchkAUM . and the party at LaGuardia
- A gospel according to Sam
- A lady from Pecatonica
- There's something the matter with seagulls
- Help I am a prisoner in a state of mind
- Why you need an airplane . and how to get it
- Aviation or flying? Take your pick
- Voice in the dark
- Barnstorming today
- A piece of ground
- Let's not practice
- Journey to a perfect place
- Loops, voices, and the fear of death
- The thing under the couch
- The $71,000 sleeping bag
- Death in the afternoon-a story of soaring
- Gift to an airport kid
- The dream fly-in
- Egyptians are one day going to fly
- Paradise is a personal thing
- Home on another planet
- Adventures aboard a flying summerhouse
- Letter from a God-fearing man
- Chronology
- Other Books by This Author
