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Cargando... Ajeno a la tierra (1963)por Richard Bach
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Richard Bach’s first book, Stranger to the Ground is above all else an insight into the character of a man whose great compulsion is to measure himself against storm and night and fear. On the surface it is the tale of a memorable mission of a young fighter pilot utilizing his skills in a lonely duel with death. Yet between the lines emerges the portrait of the airman as a breed, probing outward, but even more significantly, inward. During the Cold War Richard Bach's U.S. Air Force Reserve Unit got called up and deployed to Europe. This book mainly focuses on one mission: a night flight during a storm from England to France to deliver some documents. Bach spends a lot of time talking about the airplane and his thoughts while flying, but he also flashes back to some of his other experiences while in the Air Force. This book was harder to get into than Bach's other books because its focus was so narrow and technical. I was also turned off by the way he looks down on people who don't love to fly as much as he does. The way he looks at the world and his love of flying is usually inspiring, but for some reason he just came across as narrow-minded in this book. However, it was really interesting to hear about how the U.S. military prepared for a possible war with Russia during the Cold War. Bach's first (I think) book: His recounting of what it was like to fly jet fighters for the U. S. Air Force in Europe at the height of the Cold War. The prose isn't as polished and lyrical as it would become in Nothing by Chance, but it's a well-turned book about an under-documented place and time. It also has one of my absolute all-time favorite flying-memoir titles: right up there with Fate Is The Hunter and Wind, Sand, and Stars. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Richard Bach es un mistico del vuelo. La altura lo fascina y lo libera. El artefacto que le permite elevarse, el avion, es para el un objeto liturgico. La lucha por la perfeccion y por la precision, por l ascetismo de gestos y movimientos, por la belleza y la libertad, da comienzo en un pequeno aeropuerto ingles, se extiende por los cielos de Europa y termina, dramaticamente, en la pista de Chaumont, en el interior d Francia.Richard Bach, tal vez el mas amado de los autores contemporaneos, lucha porque sus semejantes descubran ese ser interior que todos tenemos y le permitan expresarse, ampliando su presencia en la vida de cada uno hasta el maximo de las posibilidades. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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