Night Flight

Newly Translated and Annotated

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry author David Carter translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Alma Books Ltd

Published:25th Aug '16

Should be back in stock very soon

Night Flight cover

Under the pressure of his boss, the intransigent Rivière, the airmail pilot Fabien attempts a perilous flight during a heavy night-time thunderstorm in Argentina. As conditions get worse and the radio communication with Fabien becomes increasingly difficult, Rivière begins to question his uncompromising methods, and his distress turns to guilt when the pilot’s wife comes to find him in search of answers.

Based on Saint-Exupéry’s own experiences as a commercial pilot, Night Flight is a haunting and lyrical examination of duty, destiny and the individual, as well as an authentic and tragic portrayal of the intrepid early days of human air travel.

What gives this book an authentic and inimitable flavour is the personal confrontation with a recurrent peril… Quite aside from its literary merits, which I much admire, this book is valuable as a document; and it is the unusual combination of these two qualities which makes Night Flight so exceptionally important. -- André Gide

ISBN: 9781847495891

Dimensions: 198mm x 126mm x 12mm

Weight: 160g

128 pages