Wind, Sand and StarsIn 1926, de Saint Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Latcorelater known as Aropostaleopening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. Wind, Sand and Stars is drawn from this experience. Interweaving encounters with nomadic Arabs and other adventures, the book presents a richly textured autobiographical narrative. It includes the extraordinary story of his crash in the Libyan Desert in 1936 and his miraculous survival.