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Title	:	Wind, Sand and Stars
Author	:	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 229 pages
Published	:	December 9th 2002 by Mariner Books (first published February 6th 1939)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Classics. Travel. Adventure. Cultural. France. Biography

Wind, Sand and Stars

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Paperback | Pages: 229 pages

Rating: 4.17 | 12405 Users | 1084 Reviews

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oh... maybe I'm just a sucker for Saint-Exupéry. Let me go on about the title. It just doesn't translate into English. I LIKE the traditional English title, Wind, Sand, and Stars, but the puns all get lost. They'd get lost no mattr how you translate it, though. In French, la terre is not just the world, the earth, but also earth, dirt, ground and land; there are puns on terrain--terraine, landscape--and territoire, territory--the word atterrir, TO LAND an aeroplane, literally means to alight on earth. So all these things get talked about, man's relationship to earth from above and from ON the earth, but also you get quite a bit of the literal translation "world of men"--a plea for peace and for environmental moderation. (All the early aviators are blown away by the beauty of the earth from the air.)

My favorite part of this book is where he lands on an inaccessible plateau in North Africa and, after marvelling that he is the first living thing EVER to have drawn breath here, notices that the place is littered with meteorites. And what is so wonderful about this book is not that St. X experienced that moment, but that through him, *I* get to experience it too. "Nous demandons à boire, mais nous demandons aussi à communiquer." The pages are filled with the desperation to communicate, man's love of solitude tempered and ruined by his dependence on others. This is the landscape of The Little Prince--all the characters are here, and were real.

Incidentally, I'd forgotten what a huge influence the core story in this book--plane crash in the desert and subsequent brush with nearly dying of thirst--was on my own book, The Sunbird.

This is the first time I've read this book in French. It's not long and it's very accessible to the struggling Francophile.

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Original Title:	Terre des hommes
ISBN:	0156027496 (ISBN13: 9780156027496)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française (1939)

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Saint-Exupery's talent as a writer and beauty as a human being shine bright as desert stars in this brief, stunning memoir of his flying adventures. I am so glad that I finally got around to reading it, as it's been on my shelf for years. Highly recommend.

My word for this book is freedom. It makes me remember the books I read when I was a child, adventurous stories told by the first point of view. I mean the more we grow up the more we tend to search for books that have a clear plot with characters and details that lead to a certain ending. And I was kinda forgot about books that don't specifically tell any story, but a flow of sharing from experiences and life stories. One thing that shines throughout this book is the love of the author to his

4.5 StarsBeautifully written!

This short memoir for me was a wonderful adventure in flying and parallel inward journey by the author. That puts this book on an honored shelf with Mathiessens The Snow Leopard. St. Experys experiences in the 20s with the French airmail service to North Africa and South America had comparable mind altering impacts and serious humbling in the face of natures powers. But instead of a serious quest and a single journey, we get a more open-ended set of stories bound to his flying career and

Whenever I am forced to name my most favorite book ever, my automatic response is Antoine de Saint-Exuperys The Little Prince. I read it first when I was a boy but I did not understand what was it all about except the hat with an elephant inside and the planet with big trees called baobab. The second time was in college when it was a required reading in World Literature. I did not really like it until my professor explained that the novel was about mans search for friendship. I recall that there

"... and suddenly I had a vision of the face of destiny. Old bereaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. You, like a termite, built your peace by blocking up with cement every chink and cranny through which the light might pierce. You rolled yourself up into a ball in your genteel security, in routine, in the stifling conventions of provincial life, raising a modest rampart against the winds and the tides and the stars. You have chosen not to be

If I had to choose between The Little Prince and this book, I'd choose this book, because in a way you can use it to derive Saint-Exupéry's classic. If The Little Prince is the diamond, this book is the coal: a hard-earned mass of adventure and experience. The book reads like a long letter from your most astonishing friend. Sublime.