- Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Dell; Reprint edition (Jun 5 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0440206561
- ISBN-13: 978-0440206569
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #472,357 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Setting out to explore his beliefs in the environment of a simpler time, Richard Bach shares the adventure of one magical summer he spent as an old-fashioned barnstormer flying an antique biplane. The journey is another soaring personal adventure of wonder and insight from the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. HC: Macmillan.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
If you're a pilot ... you'll become a dreamer,
By A Customer
This review is from: Nothing by Chance (Mass Market Paperback)
I found this book in my father's library when I was 15 and starting groundschool. It's now 20 years later but I have a suppressed desire to someday have a go at the gypsy-pilot lifestyle. Mr. Bach's novel speaks to the romantic heart of every pilot and leaves a lasting imprint.
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Flying in its Purist Form,
By A Customer
This review is from: Nothing by Chance (Mass Market Paperback)
Bach has captured flight in its purist form. He set out to do this and he did. Bach acquires an antique biplane (in this book a Fleet Biplane and in "Biplane" a Parks-Detroiter Biplane) and spends a summer in the early 1960's flying passengers throughout the mid-west, sleeping under the wing, eating questionable food, and meeting people who, in many cases remember the golden days of flight. This was the age of the Barnstormers. Bach wanted to re-create the majic and romance of these eariler aviators, share with them the joy of introducing flight to the every-day people who make up the back-bone of the great mid west. Bach cared little, as did the majority of the early aviators, of the rigid regulations imposed upon the early aviators by the Federal Government. These same regulations that soon became the demise of that beautiful time in aviation history. Part of that summer was spent traveling with a young "parachutist" and a young photographer who flew an old Luscomb. Together they re-wrote the exploits of the Barnstormers as only they could and as only Bach can write about. I loved this book, and all of Bach's books, and read it frequently. I loved the book so much I too finally was able to obtain my own antique biplane-a 1930 WACO KNF, and intend to recreate the adventure of Bach in his quest for the purist form of flight, that is, the true freedom of flight.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Flying in its Purist Form,
By A Customer
This review is from: Nothing by Chance (Mass Market Paperback)
Bach has captured flight in its purist form. He set out to do this and he did. Bach acquires an antique biplane (in this book a Fleet Biplane and in "Biplane" a Parks-Detroiter Biplane) and spends a summer in the early 1960's flying passengers throughout the mid-west, sleeping under the wing, eating questionable food, and meeting people who, in many cases remember the golden days of flight. This was the age of the Barnstormers. Bach wanted to re-create the majic and romance of these eariler aviators, share with them the joy of introducing flight to the every-day people who make up the back-bone of the great mid west. Bach cared little, as did the majority of the early aviators, of the rigid regulations imposed upon the early aviators by the Federal Government. These same regulations that soon became the demise of that beautiful time in aviation history. Part of that summer was spent traveling with a young "parachutist" and a young photographer who flew an old Luscomb. Together they re-wrote the exploits of the Barnstormers as only they could and as only Bach can write about. I loved this book, and all of Bach's books, and read it frequently. I loved the book so much I too finally was able to obtain my own antique biplane-a 1930 WACO KNF, and intend to recreate the adventure of Bach in his quest for the purist form of flight, that is, the true freedom of flight.
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