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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... Leroux ; the old foreman was hard at work . Leroux , too , had forty years of work behind him . All his energies were for his work . When at ten o'clock or midnight Leroux went home it certainly was not to find a change of scene ...
... Leroux ; the old foreman was hard at work . Leroux , too , had forty years of work behind him . All his energies were for his work . When at ten o'clock or midnight Leroux went home it certainly was not to find a change of scene ...
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. of seizing , then glanced again at Leroux . As his eyes lingered on the stern old wrinkled face , an odd question hovered on his lips and made him smile . " Ever had much to do with love , Leroux , in your time ...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. of seizing , then glanced again at Leroux . As his eyes lingered on the stern old wrinkled face , an odd question hovered on his lips and made him smile . " Ever had much to do with love , Leroux , in your time ...
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... Leroux : " Just look at him ! I call it a fine thing , ugli- ness like that - so perfect that it would warn off any sweetheart ! " And perhaps , indeed , Leroux owed what was finest in him to his misfortune , which obliged him to live ...
... Leroux : " Just look at him ! I call it a fine thing , ugli- ness like that - so perfect that it would warn off any sweetheart ! " And perhaps , indeed , Leroux owed what was finest in him to his misfortune , which obliged him to live ...
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
THUS THE THREE PLANES OF THE AIR | 24 |
ddress | 33 |
Copyright | |
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