Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a pilot in the early days of the air mail service, when it involved negotiating biplanes over unforgiving landscapes with rudimentary instrumentation and communications, and minimal chance of survival if things went wrong. In the 1920s he flew in South America, the setting for Night Flight. Fabien, piloting the Patagonia mail-plane, takes orders…