Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780141183190
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 0141183195
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: May 25, 2000
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics

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Rating: - Very evocative, but watch the translation...
I assume Saint-Exupery wrote this in French and that explains the trouble I had starting this book.

10 pages in I seriously considered giving up on this book, so convoluted, flowery and stodgy was the prose, something I have done with less than 5 books ever.

That I didn't and give the book 4 stars is testament to chapter two and beyond, but be aware that you might have to persevere to get to the greatness of this book.

This MIGHT be down to translation into ... Read More

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Rating: - Just get it now stop messing around :)
With this book you will take away more than the sum of its words. I think I will read this again and again and hopefully pass it on to at least one person.

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Rating: - Fabulous
Quite short, but written so well it more than makes up for quantity. Hugely recomended.

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Rating: - Crash landing in the Sahara desert...profound insight...
I know a man who sees beauty in everything around him - the expression on people's faces, the way the wind blows things round, in smells and everywhere else. For him too, "Wind, Sand and Stars" has been a guide his whole life.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery was one of the pioneers of flying aeroplanes, first with Aeropostale between France and Northern Africa, and later trans-Atlantic flights from South America. This book is a collection of wonderful tales and deep insights from that life. ... Read More

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Rating: - Aviator, Poet & Philosopher
Saint-Exupery disappeared in North Africa in 1943 while flying reconnaissance flights for the American forces. After reading Wind, Sand and Stars one has a sense that this writer/philosopher, who is probably most well known for his fable The Little Prince, was well prepared for his life to end in this way.

In the opening lines of the original French version Saint-Exupery writes:
"The earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books.
Because ... Read More

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