Come Up and Get Me: An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger

by Joe Kittinger, Craig Ryan, Craig Ryan Joe Kittinger

Book Overview

A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong passion as well as a constant diversion for his imagination during his imprisonment. His primary goal was a solitary circumnavigation of the globe, and in its pursuit he set several ballooning distance records, including the first solo crossing of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826348041
• ISBN13: 9780826348043
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"