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Paperback West with the Night: A Memoir Book

ISBN: 0865477639

ISBN13: 9780865477636

West with the Night

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Book Overview

A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time

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-Exup ry, 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."

With a new introduction by Sara Wheeler--one of Markham's few legitimate literary heirs--West with the Night should once again take its place as one of the world's great adventure stories.

Customer Reviews

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Rated 5 stars
Fantastic

Beryl is so very talented. As a women she can do it all. Train race horses, solo flights and write a classic. I loved hearing in her own words about the amazing life she led. Yet she leaves us hanging about her love interests…which is interesting. That a women at that time could identify herself completely on her own accomplishments and not of who held her hand along the way.

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A Treasure

The way that Beryl writes takes you on an adventure with each sentence.

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Remarkable story of courage

This is an amazing story about the bravery of a woman living and working in a “man’s” world and having all sorts of adventures. I just read someone else’s review stating that Beryl Markham did not actually write this book - and decided to research this a bit. It turns out that her third husband claimed to have written the book but this has never thoroughly been proven. I think it’s ironic that this woman’s remarkable story...

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Good reading

One of the best books I've ever read.kept my attention,and was so interesting.

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About This Illustrated Edition

This is the illustrated edition of West With the Night, published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1994. A handsome, quality book with a sewn binding, dustcover, and hardback boards that are quarter-cloth, 3/4's pictorial (clouds.) I think it is pretty! Heavy weight paper with something like over 125 illustrations integrated into the flow of the text.

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