# The Plot
## Review Date 2022_08_01
#note/sourcereview/book | #source/bookđź“š/fiction
## What is the story
Antoine de Saint-Exupery tells the story of his adventures and life lessons in three parts. Part 1 - he is learning to fly, learning to deal with uncertainty, peril, self-reliance, and the craft of being a flier in L'Aeroposte. He has mentors and heroes that have flown from France to Africa, the Middle East, and South America. He seems to experience something like [[The overview effect]], but in this case being one of the early explorers to experience the world from the air, he has a unique perspective on countries and humans.
The second part is mainly about his experience crashing into the Sahara dessert with his co-pilot, and having a [[near-death experience]] while almost dying of thirst after wandering for something like 120 miles with no food or water in the desert.
Finally, he goes to Spain during the Spanish civil war, just apparently to see what is going on. He starts to experience the ridiculous nature of civil war. He experiences a canceled raid, where the soldiers believe they are being sent to die, only to be canceled at midnight, and how they respond with the extension of their life is amazing for how little they seem to care. They mostly gripe about the incompetence of their bosses.
## What else do I wonder about?
## Action
- [x] [completion:: 2022-12-09]
## When do I want to stumble across this?
## Source:
## References, Quotes, Ideas
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> **Wind, Sand and Stars** (French title: Terre des hommes, literally "Land of Men") is a memoir by the French aristocrat aviator-writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and a winner of several literary awards.
>
> It was first published in France in February 1939, and was then translated by Lewis Galantière and published in English by Reynal and Hitchcock in the United States later the same year.The book's themes deal with friendship, death, heroism, camaraderie and solidarity among colleagues, humanity and the search for meaning in life. The book illustrates the author's view of the world and his opinions of what makes life worth living.
>
> The central incident he wrote of detailed his 1935 plane crash in the Sahara Desert between Benghazi and Cairo, which he barely survived along with his mechanic-navigator, André Prévot. Saint-Exupéry and his navigator were left almost completely without water and food, and as the chances of finding an oasis or help from the air gradually decreased, the two men nearly died of thirst before they were saved by a Bedouin on a camel.
>
> [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind,%20Sand%20and%20Stars)
Quotes:
![[Lost in interplanetary space]]
![[the joy of living]]
“Sergeant, Sergeant, what will you do with this gift of life?”
![[perfection]]
![[acceptance]]
```dataview
table file.mtime.year + "-" + file.mtime.month + "-" + file.mtime.day as Modified
from [[Wind, Sand and Stars]]
and !outgoing([[Wind, Sand and Stars]])
sort file.mtime desc
```
Antoine De Saint Exupery. (2002). _Wind, Sand and Stars_. Mariner Books.