{"product_id":"west-with-the-night-markham","title":"West with the Night by Beryl Markham","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBy Beryl Markham\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeryl 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.","brand":"Lushena Books","offers":[{"title":"PAPERBACK","offer_id":52502343713048,"sku":"9798890961501","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"HARDCOVER","offer_id":52502343745816,"sku":"9798890961600","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/8203\/8296\/files\/9798890961501.jpg?v=1786283192","url":"https:\/\/lushenabooksinc.com\/products\/west-with-the-night-markham","provider":"Lushena","version":"1.0","type":"link"}