In pursuit of an endless journey ....

Joseph Kessel offers us a biography written as a novel by his friend Jean Mermoz and with what talent this travel writer tells us that life. Here here 430 pages of adventures and discoveries with the French aviation birth and airmail by the reach of the one who still remains a legend 80 years after his death.

This "Mermoz" this is a great trip to Damascus to Palmyra Queen Zenobia, from Casablanca to Dakar Bedouin face the rebels, it is also the firsts perilous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean via South America, Rio, Santiago, Buenos Aires and the Andes Cordillera.
Mermoz via Kessel this is the purity, the danger is friendship and the many dramas.
Mermoz is also poetry and dreams, love and sensuality .....

Sure hagiography, but as long as we stop and if we read between the lines, we can finally see a less charismatic than it seems, a more or less venal Mermoz also flying forever more money, but rich in friendship to dictatorial attitudes with subordinates, a being open desprits but certainly that will end his life in the ranks of the fiery cross and ultimately a Mermoz may not be so perfect as that.

Rest air travel, a wealth of information relating to the company aviation history a tireless traveler disappeared with his dream in 1936, a work of Kessel I still personally loved it.