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WIND, SAND AND STARS-Anfolne de Saint Exupéry - Reynal & Hitchcock...
...literature of flying there are few literary books. Among the few: Cecil Lewis' Sagittarius Rising, Anne Lindbergh's North to the Orient, Jimmy Collins' Test Pilot, Antoine de Saint Exupéry's Night Flight. Most imaginative of these was Night Flight (1932), the work of a tall, tilt-nosed 39-year-old French airmail flier for whom the air offers a lesson in man's fate...
Even closer partners in his Wind, Sand and Stars are the pilot and the poet, the mechanic and the metaphysician. Says Author Saint Exupéry: "One doesn't risk one's life for a plane any more than a farmer ploughs for the sake of the plough. But the airplane is a means of getting away from towns and their bookkeeping and coming to grips with reality. ... It plunges a man directly into the heart of mystery...
NIGHT FLIGHT - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry-Century. Author St. Exupery used to be an aviator but he does not write like any of the aviators with whose literary experiments the U. S. public is familiar. Night Flight, a second novel, is a brief account of disaster on the South American airmail. Fabien, carrying the mail from the far South to Buenos Aires, flies through a golden twilight in which "night was rising like a tawny smoke." Presently the evening becomes less calm. At the airport, Rivière, "who was responsible for the entire service," waits anxiously...