West with the Night

Author(s): Beryl Markham

Biography & Memoir

At the age of 18, Beryl Markham, then Clutterbuck, was the first woman in Africa to be granted a racehorse trainer's licence; she was still active as a trainer until her death in 1986. She took up flying in 1931, inventing big game hunting by air, and in September 1936 she made world headlines by becoming the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. This, her only book, was first published in 1942, and reveals her life as an innovator and adventurer.


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* Review coverage. * Featured on www.virago.co.uk * Features in VOGUE, CONDE NAST TRAVELLER and in-flight magazines

'A beautiful and evocative story that deserves to be ranked alongside Karen Blixen's OUT OF AFRICA' - TIME OUT 'A poet's feeling for her land, an adventurer's response to life' - NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE

Born in England in 1902, Markham grew up in East Africa. She apprenticed as a trainer and breeder of racehorses and in the 1930s became an African bush pilot. In 1936 she became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. Markham died suddenly in 1986.

General Fields

  • : 9780860685418
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : Sphere
  • : August 1991
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Beryl Markham
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 629.13092
  • : 320