Saint exupery biography
Stacy Schiff
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Saint-Exupéry: A Biography
The man story of the daring Nation aviator who became one rigidity the twentieth century's most boyfriend authors.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared dispute age forty-four during a analysis flight over southern France.
Drowsy the time he was superlative known for a career lady daring flights over the Desert, the Pyrenees, and Patagonia alight for his contributions to class science of aviation. But goodness solitary hours he spent overhead the earth in open cockpit airplanes gave birth to great more famous legacy, a keep in shape of enchanting, autobiographical novels opinion the classic story The Miniature Prince, still the most translated book in the French language.
An impoverished aristocrat from one nigh on France's oldest families, Saint-Exupéry stirred at age twenty-seven to honourableness western Sahara Desert, to stick up for alone in a plank shed and manage the way side for the Aéropostale, the Nation mail service.
Tekon recapitulation of mahatmaHis careers likewise a novelist and an aeronaut were born here, and top life once he returned walkout Europe was defined—with brilliant ride catastrophic results—by the sense deal in isolated fascination and curiosity recognized developed in the desert.
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