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Title: Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Stuart Gilbert ISBN: 0-15-665605-1 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 20 March, 1974 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A most evocative book
Comment: This is an epic narrative of a single evening in the Argentine night mail service. The chief character is the air manager, with peripheral characters being pilots, pilots' wives, and other personnel. Without spoiling the plot, an unexpected crisis occurs in the way of a trans-Andean storm, and the pace quickens to unforgettable climax.
But read the book. It's short, and not so much as a phrase is excess weight. A spine-tingling thriller about men in crisis, and the women who wait alone. You may grimace at the manager's resolve, but you will never forget him or the pilot coming from far southern Argentina. A masterful insight into the days when character was a desirable thing and profit wasn't the only motive for excellence.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not a favourite
Comment: This was not a book that I enjoyed. He is indeed a poet, but I found the Nitzschean hero-worship rather dated and the character became clichés to me. Not recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: AVIATION CLASSIC
Comment: As a near to retiring professional pilot who has logged close to 17,000 flight hours worldwide, including Argentina (where this story is set), all I can say is: Those mail pioneers (for this story was based on fact when Saint Ex went to Argentina about 70 years ago to open up the mail routes) were indeed very brave men. The author portays another place and another time, but for all aviators (from private thru airline) there are always moments when you come face to face with your own fear - be it weather, mechanical failure, fire, or whatever - and hopefully survive. Saint Ex's protaganist and his radio operator are not as fortunate as those of us who walked away, but then we modern pilots do have a lot more going for us in the cockpit than the pioneers did. In France, Saint Ex has always been considered the poet storyteller - the best of the best. In the USA Ernie Gann and Richard Bach, in the UK John Templeton Smith. It seems to me that the finest works with an aviation theme can only come from those who have been there. St Ex, Gann, Bach, Templeton Smith were always first and foremost pilots - that their writing skills happened to be superlative would doubtless have been dismissed by these modest men. Four men in the near hundred year history of aviation with such writing genius is not many. Read them all - imagine if you like that these four flyers are together in a flight (two elements) painting contrails across a blue sky. For me the leader Saint Ex. I leave you to decide who is his wingman.
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Title: Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Lewis Galantiere ISBN: 0151970874 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 15 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Southern Mail by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Curtis Cate ISBN: 0156839016 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 15 March, 1972 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Lewis Galantiere ISBN: 0156318806 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: October, 1969 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: A Guide for Grown-ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exup¿ry by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ISBN: 0152167110 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Airman's Odyssey by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Lewis Galantiere, Stuart Gilbert ISBN: 0156037335 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: November, 1984 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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