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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)

Wind, Sand and Stars

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Paperback | Pages: 229 pages

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Title	:	Wind, Sand and Stars
Author	:	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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

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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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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

Read in French.The French author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry published his book in 1939. It was soon thereafter translated into English with the title Wind, Sand and Stars. The work is a collection of essays focusing on his years as an airmail courier for Aéropostale, flying difficult and dangerous routes across the Andes in South America, the Pyrenees in France and Spain, and the Sahara in north Africa. A number of his experiences are described in detail, the longest and most vivid

Anthropologists who struggle through translations of french social theory would do well to read this--it makes you realize how many of the topics covered in that stuff are/were actually topics in the general conversation of french pop culture. I guess. Contains some really classic offhand racist remarks, and some weird Idealistic arguments, but still worth taking seriously and well worth reading. A wonderfully written collection of memories by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (of the Little Prince fame)

4.5 StarsBeautifully written!

This book is in many ways a wonderful background book for The Little Prince. The non-fiction stories of the author's adventures as a pilot allowed me to see the man behind one of my all time favorite books. The Little Prince is one of those books where you can sense the soul of the author and Saint-Exupéry's non-fiction books, like this one, let you see that your initial intuition while reading The Little Prince was correct. This is a very un-sentimental look at courage and at the urge we all

This book was fantastic, literally...almost hard to believe that its is the author's real life. Crashing in the Lybian desert, life in the Sahara, looking for a lost friend in the snows of the Chilean Andes, and first-hand accounts of the Spanish Civil War. But most of all, it is a poetic book about the beauty of flying, connection with nature, how challenge and suffering turn the boy into the man, how meaningful bonds between humans form, the contrast between the comfortable life of a

I really wanted to like this, and in places it was really, really good. I have the utmost respect for this man who has the most wonderful way with words and philosophies. The major problem I had with this book was that most of the way I felt as though I was reading through a brain fog I often found myself reading sentences and passages over again and again and feeling unable to decipher its meaning; part of this problem lay in the translation from French, which often yielded unwieldy, clumsy