Southern Mail & Night Flight Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Southern Mail

and Night Flight

by

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Hardback, published  by Heinemann 1971

 Antoine de Saint-Exupery, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer, transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writing several classics of aviation literature, including Southern Mail and Night Flight. Based on Saint-Exupery's trail-blazing flights for the French airmail service over the Sahara and later, the Andes, these two novels evoke the tragic courage and nobility of the airborne pioneers who took enormous risks, flying in open cock-pits in planes that were often fragile and unstable.

The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance and discipline of flying. Later works, including WIND, SAND AND STARS and FLIGHT TO ARRAS, stress his humanistic philosophy. Saint-Exupéry's popular children's book THE LITTLE PRINCE is also read by adults for its allegorical meaning. Saint-Exupery's plane disappeared during a mission in World War II.

This is an ex. library book with associated stamps and stickers.  There is no dust cover but the blue cloth oboards are clean and show only light shelf wear.  There is tanning to page edges with slight lean to spine.  There is also some pencil underlining to the text.  All in all an excellent reading copy.