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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Page 58
... hands and knees and breast to breast were wrestling with the darkness , who knew and only knew an unseen world of ... hands so as to see them . " Velvet of hands bathed in a dim red dark - room glow ; last fragment , that must 58 NIGHT ...
... hands and knees and breast to breast were wrestling with the darkness , who knew and only knew an unseen world of ... hands so as to see them . " Velvet of hands bathed in a dim red dark - room glow ; last fragment , that must 58 NIGHT ...
Page 97
... hands . ” In his vexation Fabien wanted to reply , but the moment his hands left the controls to write , a vast groundswell seemed to surge up across his body ; the eddies lifted him in his five tons of metal and rocked him to and fro ...
... hands . ” In his vexation Fabien wanted to reply , but the moment his hands left the controls to write , a vast groundswell seemed to surge up across his body ; the eddies lifted him in his five tons of metal and rocked him to and fro ...
Page 100
... hands and their lives would slither through his fingers like a trivial mote of dust . He held the beating heart of each - his own , his comrade's - in his hands . And suddenly his hands appalled him . In these squalls that battered on ...
... hands and their lives would slither through his fingers like a trivial mote of dust . He held the beating heart of each - his own , his comrade's - in his hands . And suddenly his hands appalled him . In these squalls that battered on ...
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
THUS THE THREE PLANES OF THE AIR | 24 |
ddress | 33 |
Copyright | |
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