An edition of Terre des hommes (1939)

Wind, Sand and Stars

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An edition of Terre des hommes (1939)

Wind, Sand and Stars

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  • ★★★★ 4.13 ·
  • 15 Ratings
  • 210 Want to read
  • 13 Currently reading
  • 20 Have read

A lyrical account of the author’s time as a pilot flying the dangerous mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. Many incidents are recounted, including the time he crashed his plane in the Sahara and, along with his navigator, is forced to walk for days without food or water before finding safety.

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Harvest Books
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English
Pages
240

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Subjects
20th century, Aeronautics, Air pilots, Biographies, Biography, Flight, French Authors, French Personal narratives, Pilotes d'aéronef, Translations into Russian, World War, 1939-1945, Écrivains canadiens-français, Authors, French, Arms control, Foreign relations, Authors, biography, Aeronautics, flights, Saint-exupery, antoine de, 1900-1944, Air pilots, biography, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944
People
Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900-1944), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)
Places
France, Morocco, Libya, The Sahara, The Andes
Times
20e siècle, 20th century

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Cover of: Wind, Sand and Stars
Wind, Sand and Stars
December 9, 2002, Harvest Books
in English
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Cover of: Planeta li︠u︡deĭ
Planeta li︠u︡deĭ: romany, povesti, skazka
2001, ĖKSMO-Press
in Russian
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Terre des hommes
January 1, 2000, Ellipses Marketing
Paperback in French
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Terre Des Hommes
May 1999, Schoenhof Foreign Books
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Wind, sand, and stars
1992, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English - 1st ed.
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Terre des hommes
1951, Heinemann Educational, Heinemann Educational Books - Secondary Division
in French
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Wind, sand and stars
1940, Reynal & Hitchcock
in English - Illustrated ed.
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Wind, sand and stars
1939, Reynal & Hitchcock
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Wind, sand, and stars
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First Sentence

"In 1926 I was enrolled as student airline pilot by the Latecoere Company, the predecessors of Aeropostale (now Air France) in the operation of the line between Toulouse, in southwestern France, and Dakar, in French West Africa."

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OL7365545M
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superpowersarmsc00clem
ISBN 10
0156027496
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9780156027496
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35909
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