Wind, Sand and Stars.

“Everything went into Wind, Sand and Stars: the Saharan flights and crashes; the South American flights and near-crashes; the Libyan adventure; Guillaumet in the Andes; the enchanted evenings… Combined-with a dash of mysticism and a generous sprinkling of hymns to fraternity-those writings make for some of the most glorious descriptions of flight ever published…. ‘To read it is to forget we are earthbound,’ raved the Atlantic reviewer” (Schiff, 306-8). The American Booksellers Association voted Wind, Sand and Stars the best non-fiction work of 1939 while the French version, Terre des hommes, received the Academie Francaise’s prize for best novel of the year.