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The Amazigh roots of St Exupery's 'Le Petit Prince'

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The Amazigh roots of St Exupery's 'Le Petit Prince'

A fennec fox, the sand and stars, a baobab tree and a lad whose scarf unwinds to the length of a tagelmust, the face-covering turban worn by the nomads in the Sahara, are just some of the images that readers hold dear after finishing The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The reach of the beloved children’s classic—about a pilot who crash-lands in the world’s largest sand desert and meets a small boy from a far-off asteroid—is as vast as the Sahara itself. This year the story was translated for the 300th time since it was first published in French as Le Petit...

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We're a recognized book supplier by Japan's National Library!

We're proud to be listed in Japan's National Diet Library's database (Japan's National Library) 国立国会図書館 (National Diet Library)

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