Saint-exupery: A BiographyFrom a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara, the Pyrenees, and Patagonia and for his contributions to the science of aviation. But the solitary hours he spent above the earth in open cockpit airplanes gave birth to a more famous legacy, a series of enchanting, autobiographical novels and the classic story The Little Prince, still the most translated book in the French language. An impoverished aristocrat from one of France's oldest families, Saint-Exupéry moved at age twenty-seven to the western Sahara Desert, to live alone in a plank shack and manage the way station for the Aéropostale, the French mail service. His careers as a novelist and an aviator were born here, and his life once he returned to Europe was defined--with brilliant and catastrophic results--by the sense of isolated fascination and curiosity he developed in the desert. In this definitive biography, Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff reveals an intrepid and unconventional life that rivals the best adventure stories. |
Contents
The Mother Country 19001909 | |
Things in Heaven and Earth 19091915 | |
Lost Horizons 19151920 | |
Silver Linings 19201922 | |
Walking on Air 19221926 | |
Friends in High Places 1926 | |
Beyond the Call of Duty 19331935 | |
Tayara BoumBoum Tayara BoumBoum 19351937 | |
Civil Evening Twilight 19371939 | |
Where Is France? 19391940 | |
Resistance on Fifth Avenue 19401942 | |
Anywhere Out of This World 19421943 | |
Into Thin Air 19431944 | |
Saint Antoine dExupéry | |
The Swift Completion of Their Appointed Rounds 1927 | |
Toward the Country Where the Stones Fly 19291931 | |
Brightness Falls 19311933 | |
Acknowledgments | |
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