Beryl Markham
The classic memoir of Africa, aviation, and adventureâ€”the inspiration for Paula McLainâ€™s Circling the Sun and â€œa bloody wonderful bookâ€ (Ernest Hemingway)., Beryl Markhamâ€™s life story is a true epic. Not only did she set records and break barriers as a pilot, she shattered societal expectations, threw herself into torrid love affairs, survived desperate crash landingsâ€”and chronicled everything. A contemporary of Karen Blixen (better known as Isak Dinesen, the author of Out of Africa), Markham left an enduring memoir that soars with astounding candor and shimmering insights., ,A rebel from a young age, the British-born Markham was raised in Kenyaâ€™s unforgiving farmlands. She trained as 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 Ocean from east to west, a feat that fellow female aviator Amelia Earhart had completed in reverse just a few years before. Markhamâ€™s successes and her failuresâ€”and her deep, lifelong love of the â€œsoul of Africaâ€â€”are all told here with wrenching honesty and agile wit., ,Hailed as â€œone of the greatest adventure books of all timeâ€ by Newsweek and â€œthe sort of book that makes you think human beings can do anythingâ€ by the New York Times, West with the Night remains a powerful testament to one of the iconic lives of the twentieth century.
Nonfiction,Autobiography,Memoir,Biography,Cultural,Africa,Travel,History,Adventure,Biography Memoir,Biography,Autobiography,Aviation
West with the Night