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The Dangerous Romance of Air Travel by A. de Saint-Exupéry
The danger of the profession of pilot Exupery fully experienced. Twice he got into an accident, of which he was miraculously chosen alive. On one of the experiences he and Comrade Jean Prevost experienced during his flight through the Libyan Desert, the writer said: “We were in a difficult situation, our supplies were destroyed.” We were left without water and, moreover, could only approximately, with an error of up to three hundred kilometers to determine their location in the desert.
However, we immediately set out on the road, having written in the sand ten-meter letters, where to find us. We had three quarters of a liter of coffee, and we had to reach our goal before the thirst began.
On that day, we walked about seventy kilometers, including a return to the plane… but never found the slightest sign of life, if we did not take into account the mirages that melted as soon as we approached them… That day we used our scanty stores of coffee.
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On the way back I was overtaken by night, but Prevost lit a fire, and I managed to navigate a few more kilometers… We suffered badly because of the lack of water, and so we decided to set off at sunrise and go straight ahead until we fall. We very much hoped to collect this night drops of dew from the parachute laid out on the ground. But, unfortunately, either because of the unknown substance that the parachute was treated, or because of the salts that settled on the walls of the rubber tank, from which we unscrewed the wet parachute, we vomited…
The next morning we were so exhausted that, having crossed every two hundred meters, had to stop. So we reached the caravan route, and finally the Arabs picked us up… “
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