Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, describes her childhood on a farm in Kenya, her apprenticeship as a horse trainer, and her later career as a pioneer aviator who piloted passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa.
Of her memoir Ernest Hemingway said, “…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 us who consider ourselves writers.”
“West with the Night is a memoir of exceptional range and quality….It is also about a woman always set apart by birth, skin color, and education from her country and her community. It is about the problems of cultural and racial assimilation and the dueling perceptions of a young woman given an experience so far from ordinary that even she could not completely reconcile the differences.”
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