West with the Night, Beryl Markham
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West with the Night, Beryl Markham
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eng
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individual biography
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non fiction
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West with the Night
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Beryl Markham
Summary
Beryl Markham’s classic, engrossing memoir—a triumph of the pioneer spirit and an adventure-charged chronicle of a life lived to the fullest Beryl Markham’s life was a true epic, complete with shattered societal expectations, torrid love affairs, and desperate crash landings. A rebel from a young age, the British-born Markham was raised in Kenya’s unforgiving farmlands. She learned to be a bush pilot at a time when most Africans had never seen a plane. In 1936, she accepted the ultimate challenge: to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, a feat that fellow female aviator Amelia Earhart had completed in reverse just a few years before. Her successes and her failures—and her deep, lifelong love of the soul of Africaare all chronicled here with wrenching honesty and agile wit. Hailed by National Geographic as one of the greatest adventure books of all time, West with the Night is the sweeping account of a fearless and dedicated woman
Table of contents
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; BOOK ONE; I. Message from Nungwe; II. Men with Blackwater Die; III. The Stamp of Wilderness; IV. Why Do We Fly?; BOOK TWO; V. He Was a Good Lion; VI. Still Is the Land; VII. Praise God for the Blood of the Bull; VIII. And We be Playmates, Thou and I; IX. Royal Exile; X. Was There a Horse with Wings?; BOOK THREE; XI. My Trail is North; XII. Hodi!; XIII. Na Kupa Hati M'zuri; XIV. Errands of the Wind; BOOK FOUR; XV. Birth of a Life; XVI. Ivory and Sansevieria; XVII. I May Have to Shoot Him; XVIII. Captives of the RiversXIX. What of the Hunting, Hunter Bold?XX. Kwaheri Means Farewell; XXI. Search for a Libyan Fort; XXII. Benghazi by Candlelight; XXIII. West With the Night; XXIV. The Sea Will Take Small Pride; Image Gallery; Copyright
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