Night FlightAn adventure novel about the brave men who pilot night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. Their chief is a steely man named Riviere, whose extraordinary character is revealed through the dramatic acts of a single night. |
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... reconnaissance flights from Italy over southern France . He completed fifteen mis- sions successfully , but never returned from the sixteenth . He was reported missing in 1944 . Antoine de Saint - Exupéry Night Flight WITH A FOREWORD.
... reconnaissance flights from Italy over southern France . He completed fifteen mis- sions successfully , but never returned from the sixteenth . He was reported missing in 1944 . Antoine de Saint - Exupéry Night Flight WITH A FOREWORD.
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... fifteen hundred miles and more , but this one led toward the frontiers of night , just as in Africa the last conquered hamlet opens on to the unknown . The wireless operator handed the pilot a slip of paper : " There are so many storms ...
... fifteen hundred miles and more , but this one led toward the frontiers of night , just as in Africa the last conquered hamlet opens on to the unknown . The wireless operator handed the pilot a slip of paper : " There are so many storms ...
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... race , doomed to be blotted out beneath a sea of sand . And so he bade his folk set up these stones at least , something the desert never would engulf . chapter fifteen That Scrap of Folded Paper Might Perhaps Save 96 NIGHT FLIGHT.
... race , doomed to be blotted out beneath a sea of sand . And so he bade his folk set up these stones at least , something the desert never would engulf . chapter fifteen That Scrap of Folded Paper Might Perhaps Save 96 NIGHT FLIGHT.
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
THUS THE THREE PLANES OF THE AIR | 24 |
ddress | 33 |
Copyright | |
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