Wind, Sand And Stars
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the golden age of aviation, when man first dared to claim the sky as his domain, one pilot-poet captured the soul of flight in prose that transcends memoir entirely. Wind, Sand and Stars is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's luminous autobiography of the air — a soaring account of his years as a mail pilot navigating the treacherous routes of the Sahara Desert, the Andes Mountains, and the vast, indifferent Atlantic, where mechanical failure and the raw fury of nature were constant companions. It chronicles harrowing crashes, sublime solitudes, and encounters with nomadic tribesmen in the Spanish Sahara, weaving together adventure and philosophy into a meditation on what it means to be fully, dangerously alive. Saint-Exupéry writes with a rare, lapidary grace that transforms the cockpit into a pulpit and the desert into a cathedral, arguing that it is only in confronting the elemental forces of wind, sand, and stars that humanity uncovers its own essential dignity. Winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1939, this masterwork stands alongside the finest French literary achievements of the twentieth century, its influence resonating through generations of writers and adventurers alike. For those who have ever gazed upward at a night sky thick with stars and felt the pull of something vast and unknowable, Saint-Exupéry's answer will stay with them long after the final page.
Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the golden age of aviation, when man first dared to claim the sky as his domain, one pilot-poet captured the soul of flight in prose that transcends memoir entirely. Wind, Sand and Stars is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's luminous autobiography of the air — a soaring account of his years as a mail pilot navigating the treacherous routes of the Sahara Desert, the Andes Mountains, and the vast, indifferent Atlantic, where mechanical failure and the raw fury of nature were constant companions. It chronicles harrowing crashes, sublime solitudes, and encounters with nomadic tribesmen in the Spanish Sahara, weaving together adventure and philosophy into a meditation on what it means to be fully, dangerously alive. Saint-Exupéry writes with a rare, lapidary grace that transforms the cockpit into a pulpit and the desert into a cathedral, arguing that it is only in confronting the elemental forces of wind, sand, and stars that humanity uncovers its own essential dignity. Winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1939, this masterwork stands alongside the finest French literary achievements of the twentieth century, its influence resonating through generations of writers and adventurers alike. For those who have ever gazed upward at a night sky thick with stars and felt the pull of something vast and unknowable, Saint-Exupéry's answer will stay with them long after the final page.