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Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. Modern flight's literary Daedalus soars again, though the hot, worshipful prose tends to melt this biography in mid-journey...
Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. In a too-worshipful biography, the reader meets the aristocrat, daredevil pilot and eloquent writer who was probably the century's first true poet...
Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. The flamboyant French airman who wrote Wind, Sand and Stars and The Little Prince is worth reading about in this biography by an old comrade, even though the book is flawed by grandiloquence...
Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. The flamboyant French airman who wrote Wind, Sand and Stars and The Little Prince is worth reading about in this biography by an old flying comrade, even though the book is flawed by grandiloquence...
...tall, shambling French aristocrat was a good pilot, in Migeo's estimation, but not a great one, despite great skill and daring. Saint-Ex's grievous flaw, one that involved him in a dozen crashes and near-crashes, was his absentmindedness. He flew for release, if not escape, and once released, his thoughts did not linger on altimeter or compass. His magnificent Flight to Arras is as much a meditation as it is the log of a dangerous reconnaissance mission into German-occupied French territory. With German fighters closing in, the aviator muses for paragraphs about the country...