West With The Night
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West With The Night

by Beryl Markham

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Genre: Biography: General / Biography: Historical, Political & Military / True Stories / True Stories Of Heroism, Endurance & Survival

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Reviews

A poet's feeling for her land, an adventurer's response to life
New York Herald Tribune
A poet's feeling for her land, an adventurer's response to life
New York HERALD Tribune
A beautiful and evocative story that deserves to be ranked alongside Karen Blixen's Out of Africa
Time Out
A beautiful and evocative story that deserves to be ranked alongside Karen Blixen's OUT OF AFRICA
Time Out
[Markham] can write rings around all of us . . . I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book
Ernest Hemingway
Markham made her name as one of the first pilots to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1936 . . . A vivacious account of an eccentric life, with Markham's headstrong nature and spirit shining out
Daily Mail
Markham made her name as one of the first pilots to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1936 . . . A vivacious account of an eccentric life, with Markham's headstrong nature and spirit shining out
Daily Mail

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