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Title	:	Wind, Sand and Stars
Author	:	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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 Paperback | Pages: 229 pages

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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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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

4.5 StarsBeautifully written!

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

Originally published on my blog: https://curiousreaderr.wordpress.com/...Once in a while you read a book where you immediately connect with its auteur. So it was for me with Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. I had of course read his most well-known work, The Little Prince, before. In fact out of all of my reading history, it is my most revisited book. For some reason I hadnt given much thought about its creator since it was a childhood favourite, like many others I had fallen in

4.5 StarsBeautifully written!

This book was fantastic, literally...almost hard to believe that its is the author's real life. Crashing in the Lybian desert, life in the Sahara, looking for a lost friend in the snows of the Chilean Andes, and first-hand accounts of the Spanish Civil War. But most of all, it is a poetic book about the beauty of flying, connection with nature, how challenge and suffering turn the boy into the man, how meaningful bonds between humans form, the contrast between the comfortable life of a

Whenever I am forced to name my most favorite book ever, my automatic response is Antoine de Saint-Exuperys The Little Prince. I read it first when I was a boy but I did not understand what was it all about except the hat with an elephant inside and the planet with big trees called baobab. The second time was in college when it was a required reading in World Literature. I did not really like it until my professor explained that the novel was about mans search for friendship. I recall that there