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Books : West with the NightIn association with Amazon.comby: Beryl Markham  EAN: 9781853810732 Format: Import ISBN: 1853810738 Label: Easton Press Manufacturer: Easton Press Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 1989 Publisher: Easton Press Studio: Easton Press Sales Rank: 2348572 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - How I found this ...I am not quite sure how I happened upon this book but i am glad I did. The writing is a beautiful portrait of Kenya in the early 20th centure. Written from the view of English settlers, Beryl Markham was quite a character. Rumor has it that she may not have penned the book herself. I would like to learn more. Rating:  - Beautifully written account of life in East AfricaMy grandparents went to East Africa in the 1920s. My grandfather, a Scotsman, was looking for gold, my grandmother, a South African was looking for romance. My mother was born in the year this book opens. When I was a child my mother regaled me with stories of scorpions, leopards amd pythons, and this book rekindled my memories of childhood. It is a well-written account of a wild child's life in Kenya, hunting with the local people, being hunted by the local animals, and seeing the tribes ... Read More Rating: - West With the NightAn excellent book! Ernest Hemingway wrote, "She writes rings around us!" and he wasn't just being nice! A good story, well written; what more could you ask for?! Rating: - West with the NightI read this book because someone suggested my family might have been related to Beryl Markham, which is not the case, but... What a woman - this is a true account of one of the first bush pilots in Africa, Beryl Markham, who was the first pilot to fly westward across the Atlantic from England. Although there is some dispute whether she actually wrote this autobiographical account (some say that her paramour, who edited the book, actually wrote it - she never confirmed or denied it), the stories ... Read More Rating: - Reads like fictionI agree with Hemingway that this is a piece of high literature that reads like fiction and spreads itself before the reader like a well-produced film. It drove me to learn more about the author and her life. Browse for similar items by category:
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