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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 848.91209 EAN: 9780156027496 ISBN: 0156027496 Label: Harvest Books Manufacturer: Harvest Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: December 09, 2002 Publisher: Harvest Books Studio: Harvest Books Sales Rank: 72827 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Book Description: Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying. Translated by Lewis Galantière. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Timeless I first read this book 45 years ago when flying was a dream for the future. Four plus decades and 3,500 hours of flying later the mastery of the author is still there. Written in an era of open cockpit bi-planes the book captures the challenges of flying small planes in vast dark skies. Highly recommended. Rating: - Flying is just the cover themeHaving just finished this book I feel compelled to write a review. This book is about more than flying and the adventures of the French Airmen of that era. This book is a flight into the author's views of self-fulfillment, discovery, and his opinions on humanity, specifically the willingness of certain individuals to sacrifice themselves for a cause. The author relates tales of near misses with disaster and the feelings of redemption and a renewed sense of appreciation for life. There are also ... Read More Rating: - "The physical drama cannot touch us until someone points out its spiritual sense."Like many of his contemporaries, European aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944) was seeking the meaning of life in the post World War I world. He looked for it and often found it outside the bounds of quotidian existence. His job as a pilot for Aeropostale, the French air mail service, offered him a unique perspective as he encountered the elements up close and personal in small planes he guided over vast deserts, oceans and mountains, and through fog, storms and, in a memorable account, ... Read More Rating: - Wisdom from an earlier generationIt is not exaggeration to say that the reading of four books--one of them "The Little Prince" by St. Exupery--changed my life. It would also not be an overstatement to say all my reading now is done to try to find another title or two to add to this list. (Maybe, though, the changing of my life is of little consequence. . .it slips away. . .it slips away. Maybe now I read to have another title to suggest to my children. They still, I hope, have much of life left. Let their changing begin.) Read More Rating: - Adventure, Philosophy, Aviation . . . all of itA wonderful, wonderful autobiographical work by the French aviation pioneer. Antione de Saint-Exupery was among those first who flew the scheduled air mail runs over the Sahara in the 1920's and 30's. Engine failures, crahses, and falling into the hands of hostile Bedouins was not uncommon. Those stories alone would make for fascinating reading. Add to that the author's genuine talent as a poet philospher, and this is a unique and great piece of historical literature. Saint-Exupery finds ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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