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Southern Mail
Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
The first novel — airmail pilots over the Sahara and the Spanish coast, written from the cockpit. Romantic, dangerous, and suffused with the light of North Africa. The apprentice work that led to Night Flight and Wind, Sand and Stars.
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desert
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Africa & Middle East
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Publisher
Random House, Inc.
Published
1905
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