![]() ![]() Says Author Saint Exupéry: “One doesn’t risk one’s life for a plane any more than a farmer ploughs for the sake of the plough. ![]() It also, as explained TIME’s 1939 review of the book, hints at the philosophy that would help Prince become one of the most enduring fables of the 20th century.Įven closer partners in his Wind, Sand and Stars are the pilot and the poet, the mechanic and the metaphysician. (“I walked with my eyes to the ground,” he wrote, “for the mirages were more than I could bear.”) But Wind, Sand and Stars tells of more than just a narrative inspiration for The Little Prince. The harrowing experience in the desert is marked by multiple hallucinations and mirages, and imaginary encounters with strange creatures. ![]() Before Saint-Exupéry got around to The Little Prince, he described his ordeal in the 1939 book Wind, Sand and Stars. ![]()
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