description: Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, describes her childhood on a farm in Kenya, her apprenticeship as a horse trainer, and her later career as a pioneer aviator who piloted passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa. Of her memoir Ernest Hemingway said, …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 writers.
language: English
title: West With the Night: Library Edition
titlecomplete: West With the Night: Library Edition
characters: Beryl Markham
genres: Biography, Africa, Travel, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Adventure, History, Memoir, Aviation, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 37237
places: Kenya
publisher: Blackstone Pub