In this definitive biography, Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff reveals an intrepid and unconventional life that rivals the best adventure stories. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara, the Pyrenees, and Patagonia and for his contributions to the science of aviation. But the solitary hours he spent above the earth in open cockpit airplanes gave birth to a more famous legacy, a series of enchanting, autobiographical novels and the classic story The Little Prince, still the most translated book in the French language.

Some copies are Da Capo paperback edition, 1996.

A king of infinite space (1927-1928) -- The mother country (1900-1909) -- Things in heaven and earth (1909-1915) -- Lost horizons (1915-1920) -- Silver linings (1920-1922) -- Walking on air (1922-1926) -- Friends in high places (1926) -- The swift completion of their appointed rounds (1927-1929) -- Toward the country where the stones fly (1929-1931) -- Brightness falls (1931-1933) -- Beyond the call of duty (1933-1935) -- "Tayara boum-boum, tayara boum-boum!" (1935-1937) Civil evening twilight (1937-1939) -- Where is France? (1939-1940) -- Resistance on Fifth Avenue (1940-1942) -- Anywhere out of this world (1942-1943) -- Into thin air (1943-1944) -- Epilogue: Saint Antoine d'Exupéry.