Au temps des hélices--
Subtitle: dans le vent d'une époque : récit
By: Jean Renaudat
Publisher: Editions La Bruyère
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9782840149675
Subjects: Aeronautics; History; Air pilots; Biography; Voyages and travels; Colonies; Indochinese War, 1946-1954; French Personal narratives; Description and travel; Social life and customs
Notes: A series of episodes, some possibly fictionalized, from the author's life and career as a civil and military pilot, stationed first in French Indochina and then in Madagascar, and enthusiastic traveller both by air and by sea. These are intertwined with more general considerations on, among others, the history of aviation in France, the history and nature of French colonialism, the history of Indochina, and the history and social life and customs of Madagascar.