Also published as: Wind, Sand, and Stars

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Year: 1939 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Adventure, Classic, Travel, Biographies, Philosophy Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Barns&Noble OpenLibrary Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780156027496 0156027496

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. Similar books: Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Biplane by Richard Bach The War by Marguerite Duras Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir Dear Departed by Marguerite Yourcenar The Life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal Pedigree by Patrick Modiano West with the Night by Beryl Markham The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute Cannibal Queen by Stephen Coonts The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre Going Home by Doris Lessing Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey