|
|
List Price: $12.00 Amazon.com's Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 843.912 EAN: 9780156656054 ISBN: 0156656051 Label: Harvest Books Manufacturer: Harvest Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 96 Publication Date: March 20, 1974 Publisher: Harvest Books Studio: Harvest Books Editorial Review: Product Description: In this gripping novel, Saint-Exupéry 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 André Gide. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A peek back at the aviation's dangerous rootsThere already exist a dozen or more excellent reviews on this early aviation piece. I humbly add my thoughts. This novel, written 1930ish by the famous author/flyer Antoine De Saint-Exupery, in the pioneering days of aviation, encompasses two stories playing out simultaneously: 1. In the cockpit of a night mail plane, flying out of Patagonia, Chile, over the Andes and towards points north. A primitive aircraft, with primitive radio, only dead-reckoning navigation, ... Read More Rating: - Prelude to CitadelWritten and published when Saint-Exupery was 31 years old, this short novel holds the seed of what was to become Saint-Ex's posthumous masterpiece, Citadel. The theme is leadership in a life and death command situation. Night Flight is the story of Mr. Rivière (pronounced ree-vee-AIR) who oversees a number of pilots carrying mail in South America. The postal service is a lucrative but competive business and keeping planes grounded at night loses the company any speed advantage flight ... Read More Rating: - Night Flight (Vol de Nuit) - Antoine de St. ExupérySt. Exupéry was an early aviator who writes from his actual experiences flying over (and through) the Andes to open up new airmail routes. I purchased this book as a gift for a friend who is a pilot. I read the book a number of years ago in the original French. The story is a fine human drama in its own right. However, most impressive for me are the beautiful and poetic descriptions of early flight in fragile aircraft over a rugged but beautiful landscape, unequaled by any other author I have read. ... Read More Rating: - Wonderful Chronicle of the Human Condition.I have read Exupery's "The Little Prince." I am aware of his tragic 1944 death, just two years after writing this marvelous little book, while flying a solo reconoissance mission in support of the Allies, somewhere over the Mediterranean sea. The world lost a great literary and artistic talent, as well as a hero. This is important context, because "Night Flight" serves to enhance St. Exupery's reputation, in my opinion, as one of the 20th century's great writers of the human condition. ... Read More Rating: - A most evocative bookThis is an epic narrative of a single evening in the Argentine night mail service. The chief character is the air manager, with peripheral characters being pilots, pilots' wives, and other personnel. Without spoiling the plot, an unexpected crisis occurs in the way of a trans-Andean storm, and the pace quickens to unforgettable climax. But read the book. It's short, and not so much as a phrase is excess weight. A spine-tingling thriller about men in crisis, and the women who wait alone. ... Read More |
