A gorgeous hardback gift edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's delightful story, fully illustrated in colour, bound in real cloth and encased in a bespoke slipcase.The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.Larger than usual, this edition features a specially commissioned translation by Ros and Chloe Schwarz, as well as the charming original illustrations by Saint-Exupéry himself in colour.After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a pilot encounters a little prince who is visiting Earth from his own planet. Their strange and moving meeting illuminates for the aviator many of life's universal truths, as he comes to learn what it means to be human from a child who is not. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's delightful The Little Prince has been translated into over 180 languages and sold over 80 million copies.