Wind, Sand & Stars

Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery’s Wind, Sand and Stars is the lyrical autobiography of an aviation pioneer, from the author of The Little Prince.

In 1926 de Saint-Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Lateco re – later known as Aeropostale – opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. Wind, Sand and Stars is drawn from this experience. Interweaving encounters with nomadic Arabs and other adventures into a richly textured autobiographical narrative, it has its climax in the extraordinary story of Saint-Exupery’s crash in the Libyan Desert in 1936, and his miraculous survival.