Le Petit Prince: The Little Prince - Softcover

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015650300X ISBN 13: 9780156503006

Publisher: Harcourt Publishers Group (Australia) Pty.Ltd, 1943

Synopsis

107pp , About the author :: Antoine Jean -Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint- Exupéry1 (Lyon , June 29, 1900 - Mediterranean Sea , near the coast of Marseille, July 31, 1944 ) was a French writer and aviator , author of the famous book the Little Prince , born into a noble family of Lyon..El December 30, 1935 at 14:45 , after a journey of 19 hours and 38 minutes, Saint- Exupery with your browser Andre Prevot had a forced landing in Libya 's Sahara desert en route to Saigon. His plane was a Caudron C -630 Simoun n7041 ( registration F - anry ) . The team was trying to fly from Paris to Saigon in less time than any driver had, for a prize of 150,000 francs. Both survived the landing but suffered the ravages of rapid dehydration in the Sahara. They had no idea of its location . According to his memoirs, all they had to eat were grapes, two oranges and a small ration of wine.2 Both experienced visual and auditory hallucinations . By the third day they were so dehydrated that they stopped sweating. Finally , on the fourth day , a Bedouin camel discovered them, saving their lives . The fable of Saint- Exupery The Little Prince, is a reference to this experience .. After nearly 25 months in North America , Saint- Exupéry returned to Europe to fly with the Free French Forces and fight with the Allies in a squadron based in the Mediterranean. With 43 years , was not only older than most of the men assigned those rights, but also suffered pain, due to its many fractures . He was assigned with a number of other drivers to P - 38 Lightning s , an official described as aircraft " tired of war , not airworthy " .3 After destroying a P - 38 engine failure on his second mission, it was grounded for eight months, but was reinstated in flight missions by the personal intervention of General Eisenhower. Charles de Gaulle publicly AFIMA that Saint -Exupéry supported Germany , depressed by this, the pilot began drinking exceso.4 The final allocation of Saint -Exupéry was to gather intellig

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About the Author:

Writer and aviator, Antoine Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint-Exupéry was born on 29 June, 1900 in Lyon, France. In 1921, he began his military service with the light cavalry, and trained as a pilot in Strasbourg. A year later he obtained his license and was offered transfer to the airforce. On December 30, 1945, Saint-Exupéry and his navigator, André Prévot, embarked on a record-breaking attempt to fly from Paris to Saigon. Nineteen and a half hours into the flight, their plane crashed in the Sahara desert. Both survived the crash but spent three days battling dehydration, limited food and hallucinations. On the fourth day, they were rescued by a camel-riding Bedouin. In part, this experience was the inspiration for The Little Prince, which begins with a pilot being marooned in the desert. The manuscript was completed by October 1942. On 31 July 1944, a year after his book The Little Prince was published, Saint-Exupéry disappeared over the Mediterranean while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, the Armée de l'Air.

Synopsis:

Delightful French tale relates the adventures of a young prince, from a distant asteroid, whose rocket has been forced down in the African desert.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Publishers Group (Australia) Pty.Ltd
• Publication date: 1943
• ISBN 10: 015650300X
• ISBN 13: 9780156503006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 113