By Beryl Markham
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_x0015_ 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_x0015_ one of Markham's few legitimate literary heirs_x0015_ West with the Night should once again take its place as one of the world's great adventure stories.
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_x0015_ 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_x0015_ one of Markham's few legitimate literary heirs_x0015_ West with the Night should once again take its place as one of the world's great adventure stories.
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