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 119
... moon ; no wind . " The mountains of 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 ...
... moon ; no wind . " The mountains of 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 ...
Page 131
... moon up there , that lazing moon of Buenos Aires ! Suddenly she remembered that it took barely two hours to fly from Commo- doro to 131 NIGHT FLIGHT.
... moon up there , that lazing moon of Buenos Aires ! Suddenly she remembered that it took barely two hours to fly from Commo- doro to 131 NIGHT FLIGHT.
Page 150
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. But the full moon and all the constellations were changing them to waves of light . In a ... moon was pouring on them ; on every hand they loomed like towers of snow . A milky stream of light flowed everywhere ...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. But the full moon and all the constellations were changing them to waves of light . In a ... moon was pouring on them ; on every hand they loomed like towers of snow . A milky stream of light flowed everywhere ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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