With watercolors by the author

Summary:

From the author:
The writer and aviator Antoine Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint-Exupéry was born on June 29, 1900, in Lyon, France. In 1921, he began his military service with the light cavalry and completed his pilot training in Strasbourg. A year later, he received his license and was assigned to the Air Force. On December 30, 1945, Saint-Exupéry and his navigator André Prévot embarked on a record-breaking flight from Paris to Saigon. Nineteen and a half hours after takeoff, their plane crashed in the Sahara. Both survived the crash but struggled for three days against dehydration, limited food, and hallucinations. On the fourth day, they were rescued by a camel-riding Bedouin. This experience partly inspired The Little Prince, which begins with a pilot stranded in the desert. The manuscript was completed by October 1942. On July 31, 1944, a year after the publication of his book The Little Prince, Saint-Exupéry disappeared over the Mediterranean while on a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, the Armée de l'Air.