Screen LibrarySouthern mail and Night flight /
"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 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-Exupéry's trail-blazing flights for the French airmail servic...
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Penguin Books,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: |
1976. ©1971 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English French |
| Series: |
Penguin modern classics
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| Summary: |
"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 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-Exupéry'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"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Item Description: |
"Courrier Sud [Southern mail] first published by Gallimard 1929 ... Vol de Nuit [Night flight] first published by Gallimard 1931"--Title page verso. "This revised translation by Curtis Cate first published by William Heinemann Ltd 1971"--Title page verso. Published in Penguin Books 1976. Reprinted in Penguin Classics 2000. |
| Carrier Form: | 173 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780141183749 (paperback) : 0141183748 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PQ2637 |
| CLC: | I565.45 |
| Call Number: | I565.45/S137 |