Three award-winning works of adventure, survival, and the early days
of aviation from the celebrated author of The Little Prince, collected
in one volume. Ranging from the northern skies of France to the
South American Andes, this volume includes two memoirs and a novel,
each informed by the lauded pilot and poet’s experiences as a
pioneering aviator during World War II. Wind, Sand and Stars
Recounting his early days flying airmail routes across the African
Sahara, Saint-Exupéry explores the spiritual, philosophical, and
physical wonders of navigating the passes of the Pyrenees, the peaks
of the Andes, and the wasteland of the Libyan desert. This memoir, a
National Book Award winner that was voted a National Geographic Top
Ten Adventure Book of All Time, is “a beautiful book, a brave book,
and a book that should be read against the confusion of this world”
(The New York Times). Night Flight Overseeing night-mail flights in
Buenos Aires, Riviere is a believer in remaining faithful to the
mission and has trained his pilots to stave off the fear of death. But
when he discovers that one of his planes is lost in a storm after
flying out of Patagonia, both his authority and his beliefs will be
challenged, in a novel that won France’s Prix Femina Award and was
made into a classic film. Flight to Arras Saint-Exupéry’s memoir
of a harrowing reconnaissance mission during the Battle of France in
1940—as one of only a handful of pilots who continued to fight in
solidarity against the inevitable German invasion—was a recipient of
the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Aéro-Club de France.
“Saint-Exupéry . . . blends adventure with reflection in a way
few writers have.” —Richard Bach Translated by Lewis
Galantière and Stuart Gilbert
Les mer
Wind, Sand and Stars; Night Flight; and Flight to Arras
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780544128088
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Mariner Books / Open Road Integrated Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter