Wind

First published in 1939 as Terre des hommes, this book is a sequence of autobiographical essays from the author's years as a mail pilot. He recalls desert and Andean routes, night flying, comrades lost or saved, and a crash in the Libyan Sahara with his mechanic, when thirst nearly killed them before a camel rider found them. Incidents open into reflections on responsibility, friendship, and what makes a human life worth the risk. The pieces are linked by vocation, not by a single plot. The book is a memoir of aviation, not a flying manual and not a novel.

Bound in blue cloth with a design in silver and black by Kitson. Endleaves printed in black. Dark blue slipcase.