Stranger To The Ground.

BACH, Richard.

Item Number: 12047

New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1983.

First edition of the re-issue. Octavo, original half cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author on the half title page, who has drawn a sun and birds. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Gil Rob Wilson.

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. "A classic of the character of a man whose great compulsion to measure himself against storm and night and fear" (Gill Rob Wilson).