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In 1926 de Saint-Exupéry began flying for the pioneering airline Latécoère - later known as Aéropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. WIND, SAND AND STARS is drawn from this experience. Interweaving encounters with nomadic Arabs and other adventures into a richly textured autobiographical narrative which includes the extraordinary story of his crash in the Libyan Desert in 1936, and his miraculous survival. 'Self-discovery comes when a man measures himself against an obstacle,' writes Saint-Exupéry. This book he explores the transcendent perceptions that arise when life is tested to its limits. Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation.
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Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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- Année de publication
- 2000
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- Titre
- Wind, Sand and Stars
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Éditeur
- Penguin Classics
- Publié
- 2000
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN10
- 0141183195
- ISBN13
- 9780141183190
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Science et Mathématiques, La nature, Aventure, Sciences naturelles, Thématique philosophique, Biologie, Autobiographies et mémoires, Amitié, France, Divertissement, Mort, Vie, Littérature française, Bonheur, Solitude, Déserts, Pilotes et aviateurs, Vol, Afrique du Nord, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1900–1944
- Première publication
- 1939
- Titre original
- Terre des Hommes
- Évaluation
- 4,2 sur 5
- Description
- In 1926 de Saint-Exupéry began flying for the pioneering airline Latécoère - later known as Aéropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. WIND, SAND AND STARS is drawn from this experience. Interweaving encounters with nomadic Arabs and other adventures into a richly textured autobiographical narrative which includes the extraordinary story of his crash in the Libyan Desert in 1936, and his miraculous survival. 'Self-discovery comes when a man measures himself against an obstacle,' writes Saint-Exupéry. This book he explores the transcendent perceptions that arise when life is tested to its limits. Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation.