Antoine Saint-Exupery: Southern Mail / Night Flight (Penguin Modern Classics): Antoine de Saint Exupéry

by Saint-Exupery, Antoin & Gide, Andre & Cate, Curtis

ISBN: 9780141183749

Published: 2000

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer, transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writing several classics of aviation literature, including Southern Mail and Night Flight. Based on Saint-Exupery's trail-blazing flights for the French airmail service over the Sahara and later, the Andes, these two novels evoke the tragic courage and nobility of the airborne pioneers who took enormous risks, flying in open cock-pits in planes that were often fragile and unstable."