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  <default_description>A man&#160;&#160;alone in the sky has a chance to touch the stars.&#160;&#160;But as Richard Bach, flying a lone jet across&#160;&#160;Europe, reaches for the eternal, he must also confront&#160;&#160;the fear and danger that shadow the unknown.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[During my Richard Bach phase; really good book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite Bach, but still had some good moments. I really love to read about flight and flying. However, at times he was too much of a Cold War apologist. The way that he tried to justify his involvement rang false to me--it didn't make me sympathetic, it just sort of disgusted me that he was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25840564">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, OK.  He's also the author of &quot;Jonathan Livington Seagull.&quot;  Whatever.  &quot;Stranger to the Ground&quot; offers insight to the experience of flight, though I am only an observer to what Richard Bach and Brian Shul have accomplished (see &quot;Sled Driver&quot; review for Major Shul's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34087528">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Annecdotes from a career in aviation told against the backdrop of a hazardous coldwar flight from England to France in the mid 1950's.<br/><br/>Dedicated to Don Slack and a mountain in central France that stands 6,188 feet above sea level.]]></body>
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