West with the Night
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (840 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000HEYYR4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 253 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Born in England in 1902, Markham was taken by her father to East Africa in 1906. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. She spent her childhood playing with native Maruni children and apprenticing with her father as a trainer and breeder of racehorses. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. It is a soundless echo. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. In the 1930s, she became an African bush pilot, and in September 1936, became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. There is the silence of
She began an apprenticeship as a racehorse trainer which turned into a highly successful career. Read by Anna Fields As rich and inspiring as when it was first written, West with the Night captures the spirit of a true pioneer woman. Brought up on a farm in Kenya, Markham chose to stay in Africa when, at seventeen, her father lost their farm and went to Peru. In her twenties, Markham gave up horses for airplanes and became the first woman in East Africa to be granted a commercial pilot's license, piloting passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa.. This beautifully written autobiography brings us the remarkable life story of Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west
Astonishing Writing From a Record Setting Pilot Jill Clardy West With the Night is a marvelous auto biography of Markham's time in Africa. She was raised on a farm by her father who bred race horses, and became quite an accomplished trainer and horsewoman herself. Since the road system was deplorable or non-existent in the 1930's, small planes delivered the mail and other essent. Lions and Jungles and Planes, Oh My! Sheer poetry! I've never been to Africa, I've never flown a plane, I've never trained a race horse Neither had Ms. Markham until one day, there she was, a British child--an only child--in the highlands of Kenya, her feet at the starting line of becoming the amazing woman she would become. To read this is similar to watc. Just one step from Greatness M Dougan I loved this book! It's an interesting biographical story of a really interesting woman who lived life on her own terms at a time when very few women did that. I knew it was going to be good when I saw a quote on the jacket from Ernest Hemingway saying that after reading her prose, he felt ashamed of his own. And her pr