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Night Flight (1931) [Novel]
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Rating: Weighted - 7.4 / Average - 7.3 of 10 (6 votes) (Rate!)
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No writer has equalled Saint-Exupery in describing the perilous and poetic experience of flying, in submission to what he calls "those elemental divinities--night, day, mountain, sea and storm." In this gripping, beautifully written novel, he tells about the brave men who pilot night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commerical aviation. They are impelled to perform their routine acts of heroism by a steely chief named Riviere, whose extraordinary character is revealed through the dramatic events of a single night.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), best known as the author of The Little Prince, was also a pioneer aviator. In 1944 he flew his plane over the Mediterranean on a World War II reconnaissance mission from which he never returned.

Original title: Vole de Nuit
Original languages: French

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Genre: Fiction→ Adventure

This work is a subwork of the following works :
Southern Mail and Night Flight (2000) [Omnibus Volume]
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Night Flight (c.1971)

Edition Details:

Language: English

Translated by: Curtis Cate

Blurbs:

"Aviation, like the exploration of uncharted lands, has its early heroic age and Night Flight, which describes the tragic adventure of one of these pioneers of the air, sounds, naturally enough, the authentic epic note." André Gide

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Night Flight (1971)

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 0435121138
Pages: 128

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Night Flight (1932)

Edition Details:

Language: English

Translated by: Stuart Gilbert
Introduction by: André Gide

Blurbs:

"Aviation, like the exploration of uncharted lands, has its early heroic age and Night Flight, which describes the tragic adventure of one of these pioneers of the air, sounds, naturally enough, the authentic epic note." André Gide

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