I recently read Wind, Sand and Stars (🇫🇷: Terre des hommes) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who is best known for writing the utterly wonderful The Little Prince. Wind, Sand and Stars is a memoir of Saint-Exupéry’s experiences as a pioneering airmail pilot in the 1920s and 1930s flying routes across Europe, the Sahara desert and Andes mountains. Not only did he fly the routes, he established them, flying over unknown and inhospitable terrain with minimal instrumentation in aircraft bui...
