Beryl Markham was an innovato and an adventurer. At the age of eighteen, Beryl Markham, then Clutterbuck, was the first woman in Africa to be granted a racehorse trainer's licence; she was still active as a trainer until her death in 1986. She took up flying in 1931, inventing big game hunting by air and in September 1936 she made world headlines by becoming the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. This, her only book, was first published in 1942 to great acclaim.
- 'A beautiful and evocative story that deserves to be ranked alongside Karen Blixen's OUT OF AFRICA' TIME OUT 'A poet's feeling for her land, an adventurer's response to life' NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE 'A book of such beauty, humor and wisdom that its virtual diappearance for nearly four decades is in equal measure shocking and mystifying … WEST WITH THE NIGHT is a masterly example of the art of autobiography' WASHINGTON POST
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£9.99
Published 17/09/1984
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