Like Conrad, Saint-Exupéry is a poet of action'André Maurois. Saint-Exupéry's plane disappeared during a mission in World War II.If you enjoyed Wind, Sand and Stars, you might like Woody Guthrie's Bound for Glory, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'A Conrad of the air. Saint-Exupéry's popular children's book The Little Prince is also read by adults for its allegorical meaning. Later works, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Flight to Arras, stress his humanistic philosophy. Wind, sand and stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939, Reynal & Hitchcock edition, in English Wind, sand and stars (1939 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. His first two books, Southern Mail and Night Flight, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance and discipline of flying. Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-44), was born in Lyon, France. This book explores the transcendent perceptions that arise when life is tested to its limits.

'Self-discovery comes when a man measures himself against an obstacle,' writes Saint-Exupéry. Interweaving encounters with nomadic Arabs and other adventures into a richly textured autobiographical narrative, it has its climax in the extraordinary story of Saint-Exupéry's crash in the Libyan Desert in 1936, and his miraculous survival. Wind, Sand and Stars is drawn from this experience. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated from the French with an introduction by William Rees.In 1926 de Saint-Exupéry began flying for the pioneering airline Latécoère - later known as Aéropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes.

'Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupéry's Wind, Sand and Stars is the lyrical autobiography of an aviation pioneer, from the author of The Little Prince. Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, some wear to covers and spine, no inscriptions (see photographs) Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, two-tone illustrations, illustrated end-papers, illustrated title page, grey colour dipped top fore-edge, hardcover Translated from the French by Lewis Galantiere

Wind sand and stars 1939