| Tittel: | West with the Night | | Ansvar: | Beryl Markham | | Forfatter: | Markham, Beryl  | | Materialtype: | Bøker | | Signatur: | 921 Markham | | Utgitt: | San Francisco : North Point Press, 1983 | | Omfang: | 294 s. | | ISBN/ISSN: | 0-86547-118-5 | | Klassenummer: | 921 | | Emneord: | Biografi / Charter / Flypioner / Kvinnelig pilot / Kvinnelige flygere / Kvinnelige piloter / Pilot / Post | | Personer som emne: | Beryl Markham | | Geografiske emneord: | Afrika | | Innhold: | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This 1942 memoir (not a complete autobiography) by Beryl Markham chronicles her experiences growing up in Kenya (then British East Africa) in the early 1900s, and her stellar careers as racehorse trainer and bush pilot.
Markham was the first woman in East Africa to be granted a commercial pilot's license, piloting passengers and supplies to remote corners of Africa. She became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west.
Considered a classic of outdoor literature and ranked #8 by National Geographic Adventure in 2008 on its list of the 100 best adventure books.
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."
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