Harvest Book: Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)

from viking2917

If I rated every book by the frequency with which I highlight or dogear passages, this book would surely be at or near the top. A lot of deep thinking, some amazing adventures, and some wonderful writing. "and when, an hour later, he slipped under the clouds, he came out into a fantastic kingdom....

from MasseyLibrary

In this autobiographical work Saint-Exupéry, an early pioneering aviator, evokes a series of events in his life, principally his work for the airmail carrier Aéropostale. He does so by recounting several episodes from his years flying treacherous mail routes across the African Sahara and the Sout...

from P_S_Patrick

This biography takes us on an adventure through the exhilarating early days of aviation. It is filled with tales of escapades, of both the author and his contemporaries. We hear of crashes in the desert, and in the snow-bound mountains, remote from habitation, where shear grit and endurance have ...

from Daniel.Estes

On the surface, Wind, Sand and Stars is about flight when flying was in its infancy. To move across the Earth as the bird flies required a new kind of observational awareness, and a deep respect for weather quite unlike anything land-based. The coming decades would see this awareness more or less...

from delphica

I'm not really sure how this came up, but I attended a lecture a few months ago about Antoine de Saint-Exupery and the Little Prince, and it reminded me that I had never read this French classic. I loved it. If, like me, you're the kind of person who jots down memorable quotes, you need to be car...