![]() ![]() All the grownups asked him to pay attention to the matters of consequence. When he showed this sketch to the adults, they asked him to keep aside his drawings and instead focus on geography, history, and mathematics. The child was a Little Prince from another star, who had visited many other stars before visiting the earth and was perplexed by the men he met on those planets.Īnd then together with the Little Prince, Antoine looked at the world with a child’s mind. In this thin book of 128 pages, Antoine meets a child in the desert. ![]() It is the third most printed book after Bible and Gone With the Wind. This book is not only one of the most favorite children’s books, but also one of the most popular philosophy books. Inspired by his experiences in the Sahara, Antoine published a children’s fable for adults called Le Petit Prince or the Little Prince in 1943. On the fourth day in the desert, a Bedouin found them and saved their lives with a native dehydration treatment. They were far away from habitation and only had a few fruits and a day’s supply of liquids.ĭehydrated in the arid Sahara, Antoine began to see mirages and hallucinated vividly. He was stranded in the desert with his navigator. On one of his flights from Paris to Saigon in 1935, Antoine’s plane crashed in Sahara. He served as a pilot in the French army, flew for commercial airline companies and also in leisure. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French writer, aviator, and a unique philosopher. ![]()
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