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West with the Night was first published in 1942 and became an instant bestseller. It is still a wholly compelling and wonderful insight into the mind of one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century. Beryl Markham moved to Kenya with her father at the age of four and stayed until her death in 1986. Her incredible autobiography describes the Africa she learnt to love: her childhood surrounded by the tribal people, her tangles--often nearly fatal--with its wild animals and her pass…
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- Author: Beryl Markham
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Year: 1984
- Pages: 320
- ISBN-10: 0860685411
- ISBN-13: 9780860685418
- Format: 12.8 x 20.1 x 2.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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West with the Night was first published in 1942 and became an instant bestseller. It is still a wholly compelling and wonderful insight into the mind of one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century.Beryl Markham moved to Kenya with her father at the age of four and stayed until her death in 1986. Her incredible autobiography describes the Africa she learnt to love: her childhood surrounded by the tribal people, her tangles--often nearly fatal--with its wild animals and her passions for racehorses and aeroplanes.
Markham achieved notoriety and success as a horse trainer when one of her horses won the most prestigious race in Kenya. She turned her hand to aeroplanes with Denys Finch Hatton, the lover of Karen Blixen, as a teacher and became the first woman in Kenya to receive a commercial pilot's licence. Her adventures and corageous career as a bush pilot are recounted in vivid detail here, along with the richness and fascination of life in Kenya in the twenties and thirties.
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- Author: Beryl Markham
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Year: 1984
- Pages: 320
- ISBN-10: 0860685411
- ISBN-13: 9780860685418
- Format: 12.8 x 20.1 x 2.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
West with the Night was first published in 1942 and became an instant bestseller. It is still a wholly compelling and wonderful insight into the mind of one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century.
Beryl Markham moved to Kenya with her father at the age of four and stayed until her death in 1986. Her incredible autobiography describes the Africa she learnt to love: her childhood surrounded by the tribal people, her tangles--often nearly fatal--with its wild animals and her passions for racehorses and aeroplanes.
Markham achieved notoriety and success as a horse trainer when one of her horses won the most prestigious race in Kenya. She turned her hand to aeroplanes with Denys Finch Hatton, the lover of Karen Blixen, as a teacher and became the first woman in Kenya to receive a commercial pilot's licence. Her adventures and corageous career as a bush pilot are recounted in vivid detail here, along with the richness and fascination of life in Kenya in the twenties and thirties.
Beryl Markham moved to Kenya with her father at the age of four and stayed until her death in 1986. Her incredible autobiography describes the Africa she learnt to love: her childhood surrounded by the tribal people, her tangles--often nearly fatal--with its wild animals and her passions for racehorses and aeroplanes.
Markham achieved notoriety and success as a horse trainer when one of her horses won the most prestigious race in Kenya. She turned her hand to aeroplanes with Denys Finch Hatton, the lover of Karen Blixen, as a teacher and became the first woman in Kenya to receive a commercial pilot's licence. Her adventures and corageous career as a bush pilot are recounted in vivid detail here, along with the richness and fascination of life in Kenya in the twenties and thirties.
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