Quotes from Elleston Trevor

The wind had flung the sand thirty thousand feet into the sky above the desert in a blinding cloud from the Niger to the Nile, and somewhere in it was the airplane.

Her shadow crossed the dunes, smaller now. Ahead lay the south desert, limitless. Soon she turned slowly, with the sun swinging across the port wing-tip, and headed west as they had planned.

Out of the desert came seven men, and a monkey.

There are certain men who, when faced with the choice of dying or doing the impossible, elect to live. This story is written in honor of their kind.

We intend marching by night," Harris answered. "Fine. In what direction?" "We shall take a compass, of course." "Tell me one day what it was reading when you passed the Jebel Haroudji Mountains here." He tapped the map. "They're mostly magnetic rock. Have you ever seen a compass do the twist?

She is not a toy, Mr. Towns, she is an airplane.

The shadows of the dunes were black-cut by the moon; the stars were huge and blue. Toward midnight the silk canopy was lifted, and fell inert, and was lifted again by the breeze that rose softly from the north, from the sea.