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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... It pleases me here to find that selfsame " dark sense " which inspired my Prometheus to his paradox : " Man I love not ; I love that which devours him . " This is the · mainspring of every act of heroism . " We FOREWORD xi.
... It pleases me here to find that selfsame " dark sense " which inspired my Prometheus to his paradox : " Man I love not ; I love that which devours him . " This is the · mainspring of every act of heroism . " We FOREWORD xi.
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... find a change of scene , escape into another world . When Rivière smiled toward him , he raised his heavy head and pointed at a burnt - out axle . " Jammed it was , but I've fixed it up . " Rivière bent down to look ; duty had regained ...
... find a change of scene , escape into another world . When Rivière smiled toward him , he raised his heavy head and pointed at a burnt - out axle . " Jammed it was , but I've fixed it up . " Rivière bent down to look ; duty had regained ...
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... find the solitary clerk on night duty . Somewhere here a man was working that life and energy should persevere and thus the work goes on from post to post that , from Toulouse to Buenos Aires , the chain of flights should stay unbroken ...
... find the solitary clerk on night duty . Somewhere here a man was working that life and energy should persevere and thus the work goes on from post to post that , from Toulouse to Buenos Aires , the chain of flights should stay unbroken ...
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
THUS THE THREE PLANES OF THE AIR | 24 |
ddress | 33 |
Copyright | |
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