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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... hundred miles of steppes as desolate as the sea , he encoun- tered a lonely farm - house that seemed to be sailing backwards from him in a great prairie sea , with its freight of human lives ; and he saluted with his wings this passing ...
... hundred miles of steppes as desolate as the sea , he encoun- tered a lonely farm - house that seemed to be sailing backwards from him in a great prairie sea , with its freight of human lives ; and he saluted with his wings this passing ...
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... hundred miles ; no visibility . What shall we do ? " A shoreless night , the pilot thought , leading to no anchorage ( for every port was unattainable , it seemed ) , nor toward dawn . In an hour and twenty minutes the fuel would run ...
... hundred miles ; no visibility . What shall we do ? " A shoreless night , the pilot thought , leading to no anchorage ( for every port was unattainable , it seemed ) , nor toward dawn . In an hour and twenty minutes the fuel would run ...
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... hundred miles of country had orders to advise Buenos Aires within thirty seconds if any message from the plane was picked up , so that Fabien might learn at once whither to fly for refuge . The employees had been warned to at- tend at 1 ...
... hundred miles of country had orders to advise Buenos Aires within thirty seconds if any message from the plane was picked up , so that Fabien might learn at once whither to fly for refuge . The employees had been warned to at- tend at 1 ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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