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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... AIR - MAIL SERVICE- III THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED AND THICKENED- IV RIVIÈRE GLANCED AT THE PILOT . V ROBINEAU WAS FEELING TIRED TO - NIGHT . VI PAGE 3 15 23 31 • 43 THE CLERKS WERE DROWSING IN THE BUENOS AIRES OFFICE- VII ...
... AIR - MAIL SERVICE- III THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED AND THICKENED- IV RIVIÈRE GLANCED AT THE PILOT . V ROBINEAU WAS FEELING TIRED TO - NIGHT . VI PAGE 3 15 23 31 • 43 THE CLERKS WERE DROWSING IN THE BUENOS AIRES OFFICE- VII ...
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... air - mail from the far south to Buenos Aires , could mark night coming on by certain signs that called to mind the waters of a harbor - a calm expanse beneath , faintly rippled by the lazy clouds - and he seemed to be entering a vast ...
... air - mail from the far south to Buenos Aires , could mark night coming on by certain signs that called to mind the waters of a harbor - a calm expanse beneath , faintly rippled by the lazy clouds - and he seemed to be entering a vast ...
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. II THUS the three planes of the air - mail serv- ice , from Patagonia , Chile , and ... postal plane . Three pilots , each behind a cowling heavy as a river - barge , intent upon his flight , were hastening ...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. II THUS the three planes of the air - mail serv- ice , from Patagonia , Chile , and ... postal plane . Three pilots , each behind a cowling heavy as a river - barge , intent upon his flight , were hastening ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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