The earth in the palm of your hand
A superb description of maps, by Beryl Markham, one of the 20th century's most intrepid travellers and pilots.Â
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Like beads of a rosary
Perhaps a calming image, until you realize what it is being used to describe.  I recall my father's recounting his childhood...
Flung into the fire
Saint-Exupéry, himself one of the fire-flung pilots of the French air force in the early, desperate days of the war,...
As indispensable as …
A life-line for a Second World War pilot was the rubber tube. Saint-Exupéry's account vividly describes the physicality and encumbrance...
What is peace?
Listening time: under 4 minutes. This is Saint-Exupéry's definition of peace, in which everything is in its place and friends...
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