What’s more, Bach had more books in him, and more bestsellers-from 1977’s “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah” to 1984’s “The Bridge Across Forever” and 1988’s “One.” The last two sold a mere third of a million copies each-creditable but no “Jonathan.” Almost all, says Bach, “use flight as a method to reach inside my heart.” “Jonathan” has since sold an estimated 30 million copies in 3 dozen languages. “People were seeing things in ‘Jonathan’ that I had no idea were there.” The result: Macmillan (which had once turned “Jonathan” down) did a first printing of 7,500 in 1970, and “orders kept coming in, with no promotion, all word of mouth,” says Bach. Just when his agent advised him to drop this book about the bird, an editor at Macmillan who also flew planes and liked one of Bach’s other books wrote to him.
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