Le chemin du cosmos
Autobiography of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel in space, recounting his childhood in rural Russia, his military pilot training, his selection for the Soviet cosmonaut programme, and his orbital flight of 12 April 1961 aboard the Vostok spacecraft. This French edition, an adaptation for young readers published by Éditions M.D.I. in 1964, supplements Gagarin's chapters with editorial sections summarising the history of Soviet and American space programmes up to 1963.