I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune,sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs,and gleams...A young aviator crashes his plane in the middle of the Sahara Desert. In theisolation of the blistering sand dunes, he meets a strange little boy - thelittle prince. Over the next ten days, as the aviator tries to fix his planeon a fast depleting store of food and water, he also gradually learns thelittle prince’s extraordinary story. The little prince talks of his own tinyplanet, his beloved rose, the serious threat of baobabs, and of his travelsto different planets. As the sad experiences of the little prince’s life areunfurled, so grows the affection for him in the aviator’s heart.Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic text has enthralled its readers, adults andchildren alike, over decades. The story is reflective of notions of loyalty,friendship, love and hope, easy but intense. The little prince’s simplicitythrows the futility of endless human desires into a sharp relief, making it asprofound as it is poetic.