Night Flight [Import] [Paperback]

Antoine De Saint-Exupery (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Heinemann Educ.
• Language: French
• ISBN-10: 0435372343
• ISBN-13: 978-0435372347
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY (1900-1944) was born in Lyons, France. He took his first flight at the age of eleven, and became a pilot at twenty-six. He was a pioneer of international commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. His writings include The Little Prince; Wind, Sand and Stars; and Southern Mail. In 1944, while serving with his French air squadron, he disappeared during a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Drama in the sky, January 1, 2001

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Victor Flores (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vol De Nuit (Paperback)

This story is very involving and very dramatic, I enjoyed the bravery of the main character, fighting in disadventage with the nature and trying to make the impossible come true. It's a very emotional story from the beginnings of the aviation and the dangers of a night flight in these early years of the plane