Night FlightWinner of the 1931 Prix Femina, the novel concerns the perils of pioneer aviation, and is a fictionalized account of the author's own experience. "An enduring modern classic and the best description of flight in print" (Schiff, 205, 210). |
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Page 53
... Brazil . ” Then Pellerin had slapped the shoulder of an inspector poring upon Atlantis and , as in duty bound , had asked a question . " Keen on geology , eh ? " " Keen ? I'm mad about it ! " All his life long only the stones had not ...
... Brazil . ” Then Pellerin had slapped the shoulder of an inspector poring upon Atlantis and , as in duty bound , had asked a question . " Keen on geology , eh ? " " Keen ? I'm mad about it ! " All his life long only the stones had not ...
Page 93
... Brazil anyhow . " He looked at the moon and reckoned up his riches and then his gaze fell upon the town below . Not warm or kind or bright it seemed to him ; already in his mind's eye its worthless , shining sands were run- ning out ...
... Brazil anyhow . " He looked at the moon and reckoned up his riches and then his gaze fell upon the town below . Not warm or kind or bright it seemed to him ; already in his mind's eye its worthless , shining sands were run- ning out ...
Page 119
... Brazil were standing stark and clear against the moonlit sky , the tangled tresses of their jet - black forests falling sheer into a silver tracery of sea . Upon those forests the moon- beams played and played in vain , tingeing their ...
... Brazil were standing stark and clear against the moonlit sky , the tangled tresses of their jet - black forests falling sheer into a silver tracery of sea . Upon those forests the moon- beams played and played in vain , tingeing their ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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