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Title	:	Wind, Sand and Stars
Author	:	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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4.5 StarsBeautifully written!

4.5 StarsBeautifully written!

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

I purchased this book from the Folio Society on 8 January 1993 (I have this rather annoying habit of stating in my books when and where I purchased them. Just a quirk that I have.)I was a member of this book club and just liked the look of the cover and in my stupidity I thought that it would just be about the desert (that I love),the wind and stars. I had no idea that this French aristrocrat, writer, poet and author of the "Le Petit Prince" was a pilot.I must confess that initially I thought it

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.

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

I read a different version of the book from the one listed, but the one I was given has a different translator and is in many ways a different book. I write the review here as the book I read I have been unable to find here or on Amazon, and this seems therefore the best place to put my review. The book I am reviewing is ISBN 978 0 9559036-6-3, translated by John Watkinson and published in 2017. I make so much of this being a different version as this is a book with a complex past. It is based