West with the Night : A Memoir (Edition 2) (Paperback)

from scofer

Fantastic! I don't care if Beryl Markham wrote this or not (it is rumored that her third husband, a Hollywood ghostwriter, wrote the book). Beryl Markham's story is fascinating: from growing up in East Africa on her father's horse farm, to training race horses, to her time in Africa as a bush pil...

from bfertig

She really led an amazing life, and her prose writing was fantastic. Even when writing about something that could be otherwise really dull - monotonous flying in the middle of the night where there was little that she could see to describe was somehow magically transformed into a beautifully eleg...

from tututhefirst

An amazing memoir written by a pioneering aviatrix about her early life in British East Africa (now Kenya) as a farmer's daughter, race horse trainer, and eventually, bush pilot delivering mail, supplies, and ferrying people across the uncharted territory of eastern Africa. Her exquisite prose ma...

from laytonwoman3rd

Raised in British East Africa, almost as free as the native children she grew up with, or the lions they hunted with spears, Beryl Markham lived a long and eventful life. She was a pioneering aviatrix, a bush pilot, a race horse trainer, and a woman for whom living was a full time activity. This ...

from brenzi

I finished Beryl Markham's remarkable memoir and immediately had to know more about her. Who was this woman who was described by Ernest Hemingway in this way: "she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer....she can write rings around all of u...