![]() ![]() Markham was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west in a non-stop solo flight (a westbound flight requires more endurance, fuel, and time than the eastward journey, because the craft must travel against the prevailing Atlantic winds). But can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. "she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. Įrnest Hemingway was deeply impressed with Markham's writing, saying ![]() ![]() In 2004, National Geographic Adventure ranked it number 8 in its list of the 100 best adventure books. It is considered a classic of outdoor literature and was included in the United States' Armed Services Editions shortly after its publication. West with the Night is a 1942 memoir by Beryl Markham, chronicling her experiences growing up in Kenya (then British East Africa) in the early 1900s, leading to celebrated careers as a racehorse trainer and bush pilot there. ![]()
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