New Releases by Richard Bach

Un viaggio alla ricerca della libertà e dell'avventura attraverso gli Stati Uniti: un diario di bordo con cui Richard Bach ci racconta del suo volo verso est, dalla Florida allo Stato di Washington, a bordo di un piccolo idrovolante che battezza Puff. Riprendendo il modello dei Viaggi con Charley di John Steinbeck, in cui il protagonista attraversa gli Stati Uniti su un furgone alla scoperta del cuore pulsante del proprio Paese, il viaggio diventa l'occasione per raccontare la passione di Bach per il volo, riflettere sulle sue esperienze di pilota di guerra e descrivere il mondo dalla prospettiva "anfibia" di un idrovolante un mezzo che, come la vita, non è mai bianco o nero, ma vive di sfumature perché può diventare di volta in volta barca o aereo. Prima di partire, però, l'autore dovrà imparare a conoscere Puff, vincere le sue paure e creare con l'aereo un rapporto di fiducia che si rivelerà profondo e appagante. Con l'umorismo, la saggezza e la lucidità che i suoi lettori in tutto il mondo hanno imparato ad amare, Bach ci consegna il racconto per parole e immagini di un'avventura che sfida le nostre idee sul destino e il futuro e ci spinge a riflettere su come accogliere con serenità gli imprevisti dell'esistenza.

Dans le champ où il vient d’atterrir pour offrir des baptêmes de l’air à trois dollars les dix minutes, Richard aperçoit un autre zinc tout semblable au sien. Adossé à sa carlingue, un personnage sympathique et mystérieux cherche à fuir le rôle de maître à penser à qui les foules demandent toujours plus. Il lui apprendra que chaque être humain peut se libérer des barrières qu’il a lui-même construites comme autant d’illusions sur sa propre existence. Il lui suffit pour cela de suivre une idée simple... Après l’immense succès du Messie récalcitrant, Richard Bach pensait qu’il lui serait impossible d’y ajouter ne serait-ce qu’un seul mot. Jusqu’au jour où un accident d’avion le laisse pour mort. Richard croise alors à nouveau la route de son Messie qui lui montre cette fois comment faire d’un désastre une bénédiction. Ainsi est née la suite de son best-seller mondial, intitulée « Les Aventures d’un étudiant récalcitrant », publiée pour la première fois en France dans cette édition augmentée.

Un dono d'ali contiene i punti salienti di quindici anni della vita di Richard Bach, che cominciò a scrivere dopo aver imparato a volare. In questi suoi ricordi della vita prima del Gabbiano Jonathan Livingston ogni pensiero o azione riporta agli ingredienti straordinari delle sue opere: la gioia e il significato del volo, l'avventura, la libertà, l'ispirazione. Attraverso le parole di questo libro, il lettore potrà capire perché il volo sia così importante per l'autore, potrà condividere con lui la gioia delle sue esperienze in aria e incontrare quelle persone un po' "speciali" che sono gli amici di Bach nel mondo dell'aviazione. Comprendendo così infine anche il motivo del suo instancabile impegno nell'imparare a volare e vivere meglio.

"Quand le jour se leva, Jonathan le Goéland s'entraînait encore. Il vivait, frémissant de bonheur, fier de dominer sa peur ! Alors il plaqua ses ailes contre lui et piqua droit vers la mer." Jonathan Livingston n'est pas un goéland comme les autres. Sa seule passion, c'est de voler toujours plus vite et plus haut. Incompris des autres goélands, il est chassé du clan et condamné à une vie solitaire. Jonathan poursuit sa quête de liberté, et bientôt, de nouvelles rencontres vont bouleverser son existence.

In Richard Bach's best-selling book Illusions, the mysterious hero Donald Shimoda seems to carry the keys to the universe with him as he barnstorms the Midwest in a Travel Air biplane. Shimoda's secret is a small book, bound in what appears to be suede, called the Messiah's Handbook. This slim volume, which the hero frequently quotes, is said to contain "whatever you need to know." All Shimoda has to do is hold a question in his mind, close his eyes, open the book at random, open his eyes-- and the answer is there. Here, at last, is the "lost book" from Illusions--the Messiah's Handbook. Within these pages, you will find the answers to all your most important questions as well as answers to questions that you may have never thought to ask--until now.

Por el autor de Juan Salvador Gaviota. Historia para descubrir lo más hondo de nosotros mismos. En el espacio aéreo sin nubes que se extiende entre loscampos de maíz de Illinois y el azul infinito, un hombre deposita su fe en la hélice de su biplano. Para ese piloto, la fe es tan real como un depósito lleno de gasolina# hasta que se encuentra con Donal Shimoda, un antiguo mecánico que se define como un mesías y es capaz de lograr que las penas desaparezcan y que la imaginación remonte el vuelo. En Ilusiones descubrimos las verdades atemporales que dan alas a nuestras almas: que la gente no necesita máquinas voladoras para levantar el vuelo, que incluso las nubes más oscuras tienen un sentido cuando nos situamos por encima de ellas y que los mesías pueden encontrarse en lugares tan insospechados como un campo de heno, un pueblo perdido en medio de la llanura o, sobre todo, en lo más hondo de nosotros mismos.

The ultimate collection of quotes drawn from Richard's own notes and personal correspondence.

Let's pretend that I was killed on that day, when I wasn't. The day when my guardian angel managed to throw my F-86F half a second from becoming a fireball in the desert, up into a clear sky, way above what would have been the impact point. If she hadn't done this, if she hadn't spared my life time after time in the 80-some years that we've been together, I wouldn't have written this book that brings those strange times together, and suggests why we choose any lifetime in the first place. For 78 of those years, I had no idea that she existed, hadn't heard about guardian angels and what their job might be. Hadn't heard that our angel stays with us from the minute we're born till the time that our mission is done, and we come home to the place we call heaven. Today I've just about finished a lifetime, and at last I can understand what it is that we do as mortals, and why we choose these over all the other possibilities. Thank you, dear guardian angel, and please consider that with your consent and signature, our contract will extend to yet another lifetime.

Richard Bach, autor de Juan Salvador Gaviota relata su increíble viaje a través de Estados Unidos a los mandos de un pequeño hidroavión. « Si queremos que en nuestra vida haya aventura, nadie, salvo nosotros, va a proporcionárnosla.» Richard Bach A la manerade los Viajes con Charley, de John Steinbeck, y de su propia obra Ilusiones, estos Viajes con Puff, de Richard Bach, relatan la aventura de este, desde Florida hasta el estado de Washington, pilotando un pequeño hidroavión Easton SeaRey al que bautiza con el nombre de Puff. Con un humor, una sabiduría y una agudeza que sólo podían provenir de uno de los escritores más aclamados del mundo, Bach desafía nuestras ideas acerca del destino y nuestro futuro, y nos interroga sobre cómo prepararnos para los imprevistos de la vida. ¿Es posible estar realmente a salvo? Y ¿estar a salvo es siempre lo que queremos?

This is the author's account of his near death and recovery from injuries received in the crash of his seaplane, Puff, in 2012.

"This is the first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign that was waged against anarchist terrorism from 1878 to the 1920s. Anarchist terrorism was at that time the dominant form of terrorism and for many continued to be synonymous with terrorism as late as the 1930s. Ranging from Europe and the Americas to the Middle East and Asia, Richard Bach Jensen explores how anarchist terrorism emerged as a global phenomenon during the first great era of economic and social globalization at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries and reveals why some nations were so much more successful in combating this new threat than others. He shows how the challenge of dealing with this new form of terrorism led to the fundamental modernization of policing in many countries and also discusses its impact on criminology and international law"--

Richard Bach shares spiritual insights about life and love, as he describes his marriage to his soulmate and (now) ex-wife, Leslie Parrish.

This is the first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign that was waged against anarchist terrorism from 1878 to the 1920s. Anarchist terrorism was at that time the dominant form of terrorism and for many continued to be synonymous with terrorism as late as the 1930s. Ranging from Europe and the Americas to the Middle East and Asia, Richard Bach Jensen explores how anarchist terrorism emerged as a global phenomenon during the first great era of economic and social globalization at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries and reveals why some nations were so much more successful in combating this new threat than others. He shows how the challenge of dealing with this new form of terrorism led to the fundamental modernization of policing in many countries and also discusses its impact on criminology and international law.

A few years ago, someone asked me by way of their T-shirt, Got Freedom? Heres, a bit delayed and by way of two small seaplanes and a continent ten thousand horizons wide, my answerRichard Bach. In the tradition of John Steinbecks Travels with Charley, and Richard Bachs own bestseller, Illusions, TRAVELS WITH PUFF recounts Bachs journey from Florida to Washington state in his small seaplane. With humor, wisdom and insight that could only come from one of the worlds most beloved authors and an accomplished pilot, TRAVELS WITH PUFF also challenges our ideas of fate and our futures, and asks us how can we prepare for the emergencies in our own lives? Can we ever really be safe? And, is being safe always what we want?

In Nothing by Chance, 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 adventure of wonder and insight from the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Biplane is the story of Richard Bach’s solo flight into the American skies—a flight that became a personal quest to discover everything that lies beyond the ordinary. Includes an introduction by Ray Bradbury.

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.

Some parents really are wicked and even if they aren't, they can appear that way to children when they do less than reflect love and kindness toward their children. Thanking parents, wicked or not, for the lessons given appeals to our highest self and allows for healing to begin through love. This book contains children's prayers of gratitude that for centuries have changed the lives of those who decided to become undestroyed.

In questa favola vera e illuminante, Richard Bach racconta, con la limpida semplicità di sempre, una storia di sogni e illusioni, speranza e voglia di libertà. Jamie Forbes è un pilota che non si stanca mai di volare: ha accumulato dodicimila ore di volo, ha guidato ogni tipo di aereo, e ogni volta che accende il motore prova la stessa magica emozione. Oggi che ha i capelli bianchi, Jamie insegna a volare a quelli che, come lui, sognano di avere le ali. Finché, un mattino di settembre, durante un volo gli giunge il disperato SOS di una donna, Maria: è a bordo di un piccolo aereo e il pilota, suo marito, ha avuto un malore. Jamie le parla via radio, con dolcezza e fermezza, e le dà istruzioni per un atterraggio di fortuna. Con la sola forza della mente, la convince di poter volare: la ipnotizza. Proprio come ha fatto con lui il leggendario illusionista Blacksmith, che molti anni prima lo aveva persuaso a credere di essere prigioniero in una cella di pietra - mentre le mani tremanti di Jamie toccavano solo aria. Soltanto ora, di fronte all'atterraggio miracoloso di Maria, Jamie Forbes capisce quella vecchia lezione. E si rende contro dell'immenso potere della suggestione nelle nostre vite, imparando che dobbiamo essere noi a dare forma alla realtà, e non la realtà, con le sue illusioni e i suoi inganni, a plasmare i nostri sogni e impedirci di viverli davvero. Perché, come il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston, se solo lo vogliamo, possiamo essere tutti liberi di volare.

你有成就自我的自由, 沒有任何事物可以阻擋你.

This philosophical novel “mines the same territory as The Secret” but is “far richer, raising provocative questions” (Publishers Weekly). Flight instructor Jamie Forbes guides a woman to landing her plane safely after her husband loses consciousness, then flies on to his own destination unimpressed by his act . . . flight instructors guide students every day. Only after she tells reporters that a stranger appeared in an airplane alongside hers and hypnotized her into landing, and after he meets his own guiding stranger does he solve the bigger mystery: how each of us creates, step by step, what seems to be the solid world around us. The best mysteries are the ones whose answers lie in front of us, in plain sight. The best solutions are those moments when all of a sudden we realize what we’ve known all along.

Un alma gemela es alguien que tiene cerrojos que pueden ser abiertos con nuestras llaves, y llaves capaces de abrir nuestros cerrojos. Con Juan Salvador Gaviota, Richard Bach nos hizo volar por lugares de encanto y aventura, para guiarnos hacia una lumin

In Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard Bach met Donald Shimoda, a fellow pilot with the keys to the universe who barnstormed the Midwest in a Travel Air biplane. Part of Shimoda’s secret was a small book, bound in what looked like suede: Messiah’s Handbook, Reminders for the Advanced Soul. “Open it,” he said, “and whatever you need to know is there.” Lost for decades and rediscovered, here it is in print at last—reminders for those who have outgrown cynicism and doubt.

" Mes frères ! s'écria Jonathan. Mille années durant, nous avons joué des ailes et du bec pour ramasser des têtes de poisson, mais désormais nous avons une raison de vivre : apprendre, découvrir, être libres !" Jonathan Livingston n'est pas un goéland comme les autres. Ses parents, les autres membres de son clan, ne voient pas plus loin que le bout de leurs ailes. S'ils volent, c'est uniquement pour se nourrir. Jonathan, lui, vole pour son seul plaisir. Et en volant toujours plus haut, toujours plus vite, il sait qu'il découvrira un sens plus noble à la vie. Effrayés par son audace, ses semblables le rejettent. Mais Jonathan va se faire de nouveaux amis...

Flight is the metaphor that brings meaning to this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Ultimately the fable emphasizes the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if one's flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds such ambition threatening. By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan earns the ultimate reward of transcendence. Dreamy seagull photographs provide ideal illustrations for this spirituality classic. Hay quien obedece sus propias reglas porque se sabe en lo cierto; quien experimenta un especial placer en hacer algo bien; quien adivina algo ma s que lo que sus ojos ven; quien prefiere volar a comprar y comer. Todos ellos hara n amistad duradera con Juan Salvador Gaviota. E sta es una extraordinaria fa bula cuyo mensaje intemporal y universal ha calado hondo en varias generaciones de lectores.

A collection of five novels, featuring ferret protagonists, present a series of adventures that double as tales about courage, sacrifice, heroism, creativity, and finding what matters most in life. Original.

Here for the first time in a single volume are three of Richard Bach's most compelling works about flight. From his edgy days as a USAF Alert pilot above Europe in an armed F84-F Thunderstreak during the Cold War to a meander across America in a 1929 biplane, Bach explores the extreme edges of the air, his airplane, and himself in glorious writing about how it feels to climb into a machine, leave the earth, and fly. Only a handful of writers have translated their experiences in the cockpit into books that have mesmerized generations.

Relentless investigator ferrets Shamrock and Burrows seek out an object that has the ability to change the future and may enable modern ferrets to contact the ancient and secret home planet from which they came.

Because he spends so much time perfecting his flying form instead of concentrating on getting food, a seagull is ostracized by the rest of the flock.