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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 848.91209 EAN: 9780151970872 ISBN: 0151970874 Label: Harcourt Manufacturer: Harcourt Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: October 15, 1992 Publisher: Harcourt Studio: Harcourt Editorial Review: Product Description: Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying. Translated by Lewis Galantière. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A wonderful read and a remarkable work of literatureI recently read Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars for a survey course in world literature. Initially, I was concerned that my lack of interest and background in aviation might limit my enjoyment of the book. However, that was not at all the case. Saint-Exupery masterfully brings to life the excitement of aviation and the craft of piloting. Through his series of essays, I gained a great deal of appreciation for his profession, its place in European culture and was captivated all the while. I would ... Read More Rating:  - Suffused with the romance of exotic locations and being where the wild things areTranslated from the French by Lewis Galantiere; an HBJ Modern Classic. An historical oddity--an aviator from the early days of flight writes of flying, life and adventure in those days before instrumented flight and radar and auto-pilot. Crash-landing was apparently an accepted method of landing. Its easy to see why Jimmy Buffett uses this title and references its author in the lyrics to the song "Far Side of the World". The book is suffused with the romance of exotic locations ... Read More Rating: - Timeless I first read this book 45 years ago when flying was a dream for the future. Four plus decades and 3,500 hours of flying later the mastery of the author is still there. Written in an era of open cockpit bi-planes the book captures the challenges of flying small planes in vast dark skies. Highly recommended. Rating: - Flying is just the cover themeHaving just finished this book I feel compelled to write a review. This book is about more than flying and the adventures of the French Airmen of that era. This book is a flight into the author's views of self-fulfillment, discovery, and his opinions on humanity, specifically the willingness of certain individuals to sacrifice themselves for a cause. The author relates tales of near misses with disaster and the feelings of redemption and a renewed sense of appreciation for life. There are also times when ... Read More Rating: - "The physical drama cannot touch us until someone points out its spiritual sense."Like many of his contemporaries, European aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944) was seeking the meaning of life in the post World War I world. He looked for it and often found it outside the bounds of quotidian existence. His job as a pilot for Aeropostale, the French air mail service, offered him a unique perspective as he encountered the elements up close and personal in small planes he guided over vast deserts, oceans and mountains, and through fog, storms and, in a memorable account, a cyclone. ... Read More |
