After he begins flying, Antoine has several exhilarating and frightening experiences. This is a particularly dangerous route because the pilots have to fly at a low altitude, dodging around obstacles on the ground. The plan is for him and his fellow pilots to become mail delivery pilots making the run from France to West Africa. Antoine, a new student pilot, is taking classes in meteorology. It was also included on lists of the best adventure books of all time compiled by National Geographic ADVENTURE and Outside magazine. The book won the Grand Prize for Fiction from the French Academy and the National Book Award. Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s memoir, Wind, Sand, and Stars, was first published in France in 1939, with an English translation appearing in the United States later that year.
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