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Airman's Odyssey (1984)

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Three award-winning works of adventure, survival, and the early days of aviation from the celebrated author of The Little Prince, collected in one volume.   Ranging from the northern skies of France to the South American Andes, this volume includes two memoirs and a novel, each informed by the lauded pilot and poet's experiences as a pioneering aviator during World War II.   Wind, Sand and Stars Recounting his early days flying airmail routes across the African Sahara, Saint-Exupéry explores the spiritual, philosophical, and physical wonders of navigating the passes of the Pyrenees, the peaks of the Andes, and the wasteland of the Libyan desert. This memoir, a National Book Award winner that was voted a National Geographic Top Ten Adventure Book of All Time, is "a beautiful book, a brave book, and a book that should be read against the confusion of this world" (The New York Times).   Night Flight Overseeing night-mail flights in Buenos Aires, Riviere is a believer in remaining faithful to the mission and has trained his pilots to stave off the fear of death. But when he discovers that one of his planes is lost in a storm after flying out of Patagonia, both his authority and his beliefs will be challenged, in a novel that won France's Prix Femina Award and was made into a classic film.   Flight to Arras Saint-Exupéry's memoir of a harrowing reconnaissance mission during the Battle of France in 1940--as one of only a handful of pilots who continued to fight in solidarity against the inevitable German invasion--was a recipient of the Grand Prix Littéraire de l'Aéro-Club de France.   "Saint-Exupéry . . . blends adventure with reflection in a way few writers have." --Richard Bach   Translated by Lewis Galantière and Stuart Gilbert… (more)
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Three novellas written on the early 1940s by the author of The Little Prince. As a pilot flying the early exotic routes of Africa and South America without modern navigational aides, he combines vivid descriptions of places and times with reflection about the human spirit. Introduction by Richard Bach. Classic adventure stories, reminders of both the romance and the reality of the pioneer era of aviation. All 3 are memoirs of some of St. Exupery's adventures as a pilot assigned to postal mailing routes during the early days of flight.

Wind, Sand and Stars is the most philosophical memoir in the collection whereas Night Flight and Flight to Arras are more exciting. St. Exupery certainly led an action-packed life, but what's more amazing is his ability to remain thoughtful and creative even while stranded in the desert or captured by bedouins.
  MasseyLibrary | Mar 7, 2018 |
sheerly beautiful descriptions of what flying was like in the early days of regular airmail service. I fear heights and am no flyer, but it did get across the intoxication of flight under those conditions ( )
  antiquary | Oct 8, 2009 |
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Three award-winning works of adventure, survival, and the early days of aviation from the celebrated author of The Little Prince, collected in one volume.   Ranging from the northern skies of France to the South American Andes, this volume includes two memoirs and a novel, each informed by the lauded pilot and poet's experiences as a pioneering aviator during World War II.   Wind, Sand and Stars Recounting his early days flying airmail routes across the African Sahara, Saint-Exupéry explores the spiritual, philosophical, and physical wonders of navigating the passes of the Pyrenees, the peaks of the Andes, and the wasteland of the Libyan desert. This memoir, a National Book Award winner that was voted a National Geographic Top Ten Adventure Book of All Time, is "a beautiful book, a brave book, and a book that should be read against the confusion of this world" (The New York Times).   Night Flight Overseeing night-mail flights in Buenos Aires, Riviere is a believer in remaining faithful to the mission and has trained his pilots to stave off the fear of death. But when he discovers that one of his planes is lost in a storm after flying out of Patagonia, both his authority and his beliefs will be challenged, in a novel that won France's Prix Femina Award and was made into a classic film.   Flight to Arras Saint-Exupéry's memoir of a harrowing reconnaissance mission during the Battle of France in 1940--as one of only a handful of pilots who continued to fight in solidarity against the inevitable German invasion--was a recipient of the Grand Prix Littéraire de l'Aéro-Club de France.   "Saint-Exupéry . . . blends adventure with reflection in a way few writers have." --Richard Bach   Translated by Lewis Galantière and Stuart Gilbert

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Omnibus edition of FLIGHT TO ARRAS, NIGHT FLIGHT, and WIND, SAND AND STARS.
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