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Wind, Sand and Stars was published as a simultaneously distinct work in English. The original French title is Terres des hommes.
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...
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“There is only one true form of wealth, that of human contact.”
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“That fresh vision of the world after a difficult phase of the flight, those trees, those flowers, those women, those smiles newly coloured with the life restored to us at dawn, that chorus of small things which are our reward... money can not buy them.”
First Sentence edit
In 1926 I was enrolled as student airline pilot by the Latecoere Company, the predecessors of Aeropostale (now Air France) in the operation of the line between Toulouse, in southwestern France, and Dakar, in French West Africa.
Table of Contents edit
I. Craft
II. The Men
III. The Tool
IV. The Elements
V. The Plane and the Planet
VI. Oasis
VII. Men of the Desert
VIII. Prisoner of the Sand
IX. Barcelona and Madrid (1936)
X. Conclusion
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 35 in National Geographic's Extreme Classics: The 100 greatest adventure books of all time. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Journals of Lewis and Clark, and followed by The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons.
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- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Author)
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Original Language: French
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Country: France
Publication Date: 1939
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Publication Date: 1939
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- Dewey: 848.91209
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