4.5(2)

Land of Men : "Wind, Sand and Stars "

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is known universally for the gentle charm of Le Petit Prince, but it is this book, Land of Men - known originally in English as Wind, Sand and Stars - which is his masterpiece. First published in 1939, it documents Saint-Exupéry's life as a pilot in the pioneering days of long-distance flying and in particular his experiences as a pilot transporting mail across countries, across continents.

These courageous pilots took their lives in their hands each time they set out to deliver the mail. It was extremely hazardous, for the aeroplanes were unreliable, precise meteorology was in its infancy, radio communication and maps were relatively primitive and new and long routes were being pioneered over dangerous terrain of all kinds - across the Sahara, over the Andes, even just across the Mediterranean.

But in Land of Men, Saint-Exupéry doesn't just relate tales of derring-do in the clouds, the storms, or what it is like to be lost over thousands of featureless miles above sea or sand. He does speak of the dangers, the risks from bandits and dissidents when landing in a tiny desert outpost and the struggles to keep these basic machines in the air when faced with buffeting winds or flying through dense cloud for hours, without one reassuring sight of a landmark. He recounts his crash in the Sahara, his days of walking without water and his remarkable survival. But all this action is underpinned by reflection, by poetic expression, by camaraderie and by an inner quiet born of those hours spent high in the sky - with the wind, the sand and the stars. It is poignant also, because Saint-Exupéry himself disappeared one day five years after the book's publication, flying over the Mediterranean.

All this, and a rich humanity, makes this a great, great book. It has been an international favourite since it first appeared and is now presented in Bill Homewood's vibrant new translation of Terre des Hommes, more faithful to and representative of Saint-Exupéry's original. This recording, narrated with intimacy and care by Nicholas Boulton, will be one you will never forget.

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4.5(2)

Land of Men : "Wind, Sand and Stars "

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is known universally for the gentle charm of Le Petit Prince, but it is this book, Land of Men - known originally in English as Wind, Sand and Stars - which is his masterpiece. First published in 1939, it documents Saint-Exupéry's life as a pilot in the pioneering days of long-distance flying and in particular his experiences as a pilot transporting mail across countries, across continents.

These courageous pilots took their lives in their hands each time they set out to deliver the mail. It was extremely hazardous, for the aeroplanes were unreliable, precise meteorology was in its infancy, radio communication and maps were relatively primitive and new and long routes were being pioneered over dangerous terrain of all kinds - across the Sahara, over the Andes, even just across the Mediterranean.

But in Land of Men, Saint-Exupéry doesn't just relate tales of derring-do in the clouds, the storms, or what it is like to be lost over thousands of featureless miles above sea or sand. He does speak of the dangers, the risks from bandits and dissidents when landing in a tiny desert outpost and the struggles to keep these basic machines in the air when faced with buffeting winds or flying through dense cloud for hours, without one reassuring sight of a landmark. He recounts his crash in the Sahara, his days of walking without water and his remarkable survival. But all this action is underpinned by reflection, by poetic expression, by camaraderie and by an inner quiet born of those hours spent high in the sky - with the wind, the sand and the stars. It is poignant also, because Saint-Exupéry himself disappeared one day five years after the book's publication, flying over the Mediterranean.

All this, and a rich humanity, makes this a great, great book. It has been an international favourite since it first appeared and is now presented in Bill Homewood's vibrant new translation of Terre des Hommes, more faithful to and representative of Saint-Exupéry's original. This recording, narrated with intimacy and care by Nicholas Boulton, will be one you will never forget.


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  1. Den vesle prinsen

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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  2. Lille prinsen (lättläst)

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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  3. Obras Completas : El Principito, Correo del Sur, Vuelo nocturno, Tierra de hombres, Piloto de guerra, Carta a un rehén, Ciudadela

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  4. Ciudadela

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    book
  5. Bekenntnis einer Freundschaft (ungekürzt)

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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  6. The Little Prince

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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  7. Vol de nuit

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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  8. 100 Weihnachtsklassiker der Weltliteratur : Der Weihnachtsabend, Kleine Frauen, Der Weihnachtsengel, Der kleine Prinz, Stolz und Vorurteil, Die Schneekönigin, Frau Holle, Anne auf Green Gables

    Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ETA Hoffman, L. Frank Baum, O.Henry, Karl May, Max Brand, Arthur Conan Doyle, Abbie Farwell Brown, Lucy Maud Montgomery, J.M. Barrie, George MacDonald, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Anna Sewell, Jane Austen, Nikolaj Gogol, Hans Christian Andersen, Agnes Günther, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Oscar Wilde, Selma Lagerlöf, Brüder Grimm, Beatrix Potter, Kurt Tucholsky, Hermann Kurz, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Adalbert Stifter, Leo Tolstoi, Theodor Storm, Peter Rosegger, Manfred Kyber, Ludwig Ganghofer, Gustav Freytag, Heinrich Seidel, Luise Büchner, Hermann Löns, Wilhelm Raabe, Josef Albert Stöckl, Ludwig Aurbacher, Heinrich Pröhle, Else Ury, Johannes Schlaf, Laurids Bruun, Carl Hauptmann, Hermine Villinger, Gorch Fock, Christoph von Schmid, Rudolf Herzog

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  9. Le Petit Prince

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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  10. 100 Obras Maestras Que Debes Leer Antes De Morir

    Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Mary Shelley, Lyman Frank Baum, Louisa May Alcott, Dante Alighieri, Jane Austen, Ambrose Bierce, Emily Brontë, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lewis Carroll, Wilkie Collins, René Descartes, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Benito Pérez Galdós, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Hardy, E. T. Hoffmann, Washington Irving, Henry James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Gaston Leroux, Federico García Lorca, H.P. Lovecraft, Publio Virgilio Marón, Lucy Maud Montgomery, John William Polidori, Marco Polo, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Emilio Salgari, Walter Scott, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Mary Wollstonecraft, Fernando de Rojas, Bookish

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  11. Der kleine Prinz (Ungekürzt)

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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  12. Den lille prinsen

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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