Night FlightAfter a tragic crash in the Andes, an airport supervisor must decide whether to continue the "night flights" of the mail. |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. chapter one Already , Beneath Him , Through the Golden Evening- Already , beneath him , through the golden evening , the shadowed hills had dug their furrows and the plains grew luminous with long - enduring ...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. chapter one Already , Beneath Him , Through the Golden Evening- Already , beneath him , through the golden evening , the shadowed hills had dug their furrows and the plains grew luminous with long - enduring ...
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... before a bulb , they were hardly tinged at all . " Too soon . " But night was rising like a tawny smoke and already the valleys were brimming over with it . No longer were they distinguishable from the plains 20 NIGHT FLIGHT.
... before a bulb , they were hardly tinged at all . " Too soon . " But night was rising like a tawny smoke and already the valleys were brimming over with it . No longer were they distinguishable from the plains 20 NIGHT FLIGHT.
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... radio station phantom hands were tracing a word or two on this white paper . Had the fuel run out already or was the pilot , before catastrophe , playing his last card : 116 COMMODORO RIVADAVIA COULD HEAR NOTHING NOW-
... radio station phantom hands were tracing a word or two on this white paper . Had the fuel run out already or was the pilot , before catastrophe , playing his last card : 116 COMMODORO RIVADAVIA COULD HEAR NOTHING NOW-
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
RIVIÈRE GLANCED AT THE PILOT | 33 |
AN HOUR LATER THE WIRELESS | 53 |
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