West With The Night
Autor Beryl Markhamen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 sep 1984
WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham -- aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s.
Markham was taken to Kenya at the age of four. As an adult she was befriended by Denys Finch-Hatton, the big-game hunter of OUT OF AFRICA fame, who took her flying in his airplane. Thrilled by the experience, Markham went on to become the first woman in Kenya to receive a commercial pilot's license.
In 1936 she determined to fly solo across the Atlantic -- without stopping. When Charles Lindbergh did the same, he had the wind behind him. Markham, by contrast, had a strong headwind against her and a plane that only flew up to 163 mph. On 4 September, she took off ... Several days later, she crash-landed in Nova Scotia and became an instant celebrity.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780860685418
ISBN-10: 0860685411
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Reissue
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0860685411
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Reissue
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
A beautiful and evocative story that deserves to be ranked alongside Karen Blixen's Out of Africa
A poet's feeling for her land, an adventurer's response to life
[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
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
A beautiful and evocative story that deserves to be ranked alongside Karen Blixen's OUT OF AFRICA
'Beryl Markham lived out past the edges of herself, and that boldness and sheer originality come through on every page of West With the Night. Kenya's early frontier - harsh and romantic - flickers to life, as do Beryl's many adventures, but it's her unconquerable spirit that truly inspired and transported me. Her life deserves a second look and this book - a masterpiece - its rightful place in history' Paula McLain
Unconventional, passionate and couragous, Beryl Markham was one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century: as a child in Kenya she spoke Swahili and hunted barefoot with the Murani tribe; as a woman she was a society beauty who courted scandal, a celebrated racehorse trainer, and a famous pioneering aviator.
'Written so well, and marvellously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer . . . [She] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers . . . It is really a bloody wonderful book' Ernest Hemingway
'West With the Night is the sort of book that makes you think human beings can do anything . . . When she was a mere child, she was clawed by a lion. This should have been enough to make anybody timid for life, but not Beryl . . . A jewel of taut writing and thrilling reading' New York Times
With an introduction by Martha Gellhorn
A poet's feeling for her land, an adventurer's response to life
[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
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
A beautiful and evocative story that deserves to be ranked alongside Karen Blixen's OUT OF AFRICA
'Beryl Markham lived out past the edges of herself, and that boldness and sheer originality come through on every page of West With the Night. Kenya's early frontier - harsh and romantic - flickers to life, as do Beryl's many adventures, but it's her unconquerable spirit that truly inspired and transported me. Her life deserves a second look and this book - a masterpiece - its rightful place in history' Paula McLain
Unconventional, passionate and couragous, Beryl Markham was one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century: as a child in Kenya she spoke Swahili and hunted barefoot with the Murani tribe; as a woman she was a society beauty who courted scandal, a celebrated racehorse trainer, and a famous pioneering aviator.
'Written so well, and marvellously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer . . . [She] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers . . . It is really a bloody wonderful book' Ernest Hemingway
'West With the Night is the sort of book that makes you think human beings can do anything . . . When she was a mere child, she was clawed by a lion. This should have been enough to make anybody timid for life, but not Beryl . . . A jewel of taut writing and thrilling reading' New York Times
With an introduction by Martha Gellhorn
Notă biografică
Beryl Markham (1902-1986) was a British-born Kenyan aviatrix, adventurer, and racehorse trainer.
Sara Wheeler is the author of, most recently, "The Magnetic North "and "Access All Areas."
Sara Wheeler is the author of, most recently, "The Magnetic North "and "Access All Areas."