West with the night / Beryl Markham.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780865477636
- Physical Description: xv, 293 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: Paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. "Originally published in 1942 by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston"--Title page verso. |
Target Audience Note: | 1140L Lexile |
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Subject: | Markham, Beryl. Women air pilots > Great Britain > Biography. Women air pilots > Africa > Biography. Air pilots > Great Britain > Biography. |
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West with the Night : A Memoir
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West with the Night : A Memoir
A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time Beryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen. If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond all measure. Born Beryl Clutterbuck in the middle of England, she and her father moved to Kenya when she was a girl, and she grew up with a zebra for a pet; horses for friends; baboons, lions, and gazelles for neighbors. She made money by scouting elephants from a tiny plane. And she would spend most of the rest of her life in East Africa as an adventurer, a racehorse trainer, and an aviatrix--she became the first person to fly nonstop from Europe to America, the first woman to fly solo east to west across the Atlantic. Hers was indisputably a life full of adventure and beauty. And then there is the writing. When Hemingway read Markham's book, he wrote to his editor, Maxwell Perkins: "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 as writers . . . It is really a bloody wonderful book." With a new introduction by Sara Wheeler--one of Markham's few legitimate literary heirs-- West with the Night should once again take its place as one of the world's great adventure stories.