Terre des hommes

About this book

A lyrical account of the author’s time as a pilot flying the dangerous mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. Many incidents are recounted, including the time he crashed his plane in the Sahara and, along with his navigator, is forced to walk for days without food or water before finding safety.

Subjects

  • 20th century
  • aeronautics
  • aeronautics, flights
  • air pilots
  • air pilots, biography
  • arms control
  • authors, biography
  • authors, french
  • biographies
  • biography
  • continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • écrivains canadiens-français
  • écrivains français
  • flight
  • foreign relations
  • french authors
  • french personal narratives
  • pilotes d'aéronef
  • romance frances
  • saint-exupery, antoine de, 1900-1944
  • saint-exupéry, antoine de, 1900-1944
  • translations into russian
  • world war, 1939-1945