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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... dark sense of duty , greater than that of love . " Man is not to seek an end within himself but to submit and sacrifice his all to some strange thing that commands him and lives through him . It pleases me here to find that selfsame " dark ...
... dark sense of duty , greater than that of love . " Man is not to seek an end within himself but to submit and sacrifice his all to some strange thing that commands him and lives through him . It pleases me here to find that selfsame " dark ...
Page 54
... darkness , levitated . He clung to the steel bul- warks with both hands . The red lamp in the cockpit was all that remained to him of the world of men and he shuddered to know him- self descending helpless into the dark heart of night ...
... darkness , levitated . He clung to the steel bul- warks with both hands . The red lamp in the cockpit was all that remained to him of the world of men and he shuddered to know him- self descending helpless into the dark heart of night ...
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. dark - room glow ; last fragment , that must be saved , of a lost world . Rivière opened ... darkness when two postal planes are on their way ! Rivière thought of telegrams that invad- ed the peace of families ...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. dark - room glow ; last fragment , that must be saved , of a lost world . Rivière opened ... darkness when two postal planes are on their way ! Rivière thought of telegrams that invad- ed the peace of families ...
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
THUS THE THREE PLANES OF THE AIR | 24 |
ddress | 33 |
Copyright | |
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