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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... snow . Looking back to see if retreat might still be feasible , he shuddered ; all the Cordillera behind him was in seething ferment . " I'm lost ! " On a peak ahead of him the snow swirled up into the air - a snow volcano . Upon his ...
... snow . Looking back to see if retreat might still be feasible , he shuddered ; all the Cordillera behind him was in seething ferment . " I'm lost ! " On a peak ahead of him the snow swirled up into the air - a snow volcano . Upon his ...
Page 33
... snow was clogging it ; " forming a frost - glaze , you see . " After that another set of air - currents had driven Pellerin down and , when he was only at ten thousand feet or so , he was puzzled why he had not run into anything . As a ...
... snow was clogging it ; " forming a frost - glaze , you see . " After that another set of air - currents had driven Pellerin down and , when he was only at ten thousand feet or so , he was puzzled why he had not run into anything . As a ...
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... snow . Now all grew luminous , his hands , his clothes , the wings , and Fabien thought that he was in a limbo of strange magic ; for the light did not come down from the stars but welled from below , from all that snowy up whiteness ...
... snow . Now all grew luminous , his hands , his clothes , the wings , and Fabien thought that he was in a limbo of strange magic ; for the light did not come down from the stars but welled from below , from all that snowy up whiteness ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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