Airman's Odyssey

Airman's Odyssey brings together three works by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French writer and pilot who also wrote The Little Prince. They are Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars, and Flight to Arras. Together they look at both the romance and the hard reality of the pioneer era of aviation.

Night Flight is a novel about airmail pilots flying through dangerous conditions in South America. Wind, Sand and Stars is Saint-Exupéry's memoir of his years as a pilot. Flight to Arras recounts a wartime reconnaissance mission over France in 1940.

This volume has an introduction by Richard Bach. The translations are by Lewis Galantière and Stuart Gilbert.