Night Flight

by Saint-Exupery, Antoine de

• ISBN13: 9780156656054
• ISBN10: 0156656051
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780547542799
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1974-05-01
• Publisher: Houghton Miff
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Summary

In this gripping novel, Saint-Exupry tells about the brave men who piloted night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. Preface by Andr Gide. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.

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""Now all grew luminous, his hands, his clothes, the wings, and Fabien thought that he was in a limbo of strange magic; for the light did not come down from the stars but welled up from below, from all that snowy whiteness.""

From Night Flight No writer has equalled Saint-Exupery in describing the perilous and poetic experience of flying, in submission to what he calls ""those elemental divinities--night, day, mountain, sea and storm.""

In this gripping, beautifully written novel, he tells about the brave me

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