Le Petit Prince : Avec Dessins par l'Auteur by , Antoine De Saint-Exupéry - gebrauchtes Buch

107pp , About the author :: Antoine Jean -Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint- Exupéry1 (Lyon , June 29, 1900 - Mediterranean Sea , near the coast of Marseille, July 31, 1944 ) was a French writer and aviator , author of the famous book the Little Prince , born into a noble family of Lyon..El December 30, 1935 at 14:45 , after a journey of 19 hours and 38 minutes, Saint- Exupery with your browser Andre Prevot had a forced landing in Libya 's Sahara desert en route to Saigon. His plane was a Caudron C -630 Simoun n7041 ( registration F - anry ) . The team was trying to fly from Paris to Saigon in less time than any driver had, for a prize of 150,000 francs. Both survived the landing but suffered the ravages of rapid dehydration in the Sahara. They had no idea of its location . According to his memoirs, all they had to eat were grapes, two oranges and a small ration of wine.2 Both experienced visual and auditory hallucinations . By the third day they were so dehydrated that they stopped sweating. Finally , on the fourth day , a Bedouin camel discovered them, saving their lives . The fable of Saint- Exupery The Little Prince, is a reference to this experience .. After nearly 25 months in North America , Saint- Exupéry returned to Europe to fly with the Free French Forces and fight with the Allies in a squadron based in the Mediterranean. With 43 years , was not only older than most of the men assigned those rights, but also suffered pain, due to its many fractures . He was assigned with a number of other drivers to P - 38 Lightning s , an official described as aircraft " tired of war , not airworthy " .3 After destroying a P - 38 engine failure on his second mission, it was grounded for eight months, but was reinstated in flight missions by the personal intervention of General Eisenhower. Charles de Gaulle publicly AFIMA that Saint -Exupéry supported Germany , depressed by this, the pilot began drinking exceso.4 The final allocation of Saint -Exupéry was to gather intellig