West with the Night
Beryl Markham
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Éditeur:
Open Road Media
Open Road Media
Protection:
Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2012
2012
ISBN-13:
9781453237915
Description:
<DIV><B>The classic memoir of Africa, aviation, and adventure—the inspiration for Paula McLain’s <I>Circling the Sun </I>and “a bloody wonderful book” (Ernest Hemingway).</B><BR /><BR />  Beryl Markham’s life story is a true epic. Not only did she set records and break barriers as a pilot, she shattered societal expectations, threw herself into torrid love affairs, survived desperate crash landings—and chronicled everything. A contemporary of Karen Blixen (better known as Isak Dinesen, the author of <I>Out of Africa</I>), Markham left an enduring memoir that soars with astounding candor and shimmering insights.<BR />  <BR /> A rebel from a young age, the British-born Markham was raised in Kenya’s unforgiving farmlands. She trained as a bush pilot at a time when most Africans had never seen a plane. In 1936, she accepted the ultimate challenge: to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west, a feat that fellow female aviator Amelia Earhart had completed in reverse just a few years before. Markham’s successes and her failures—and her deep, lifelong love of the “soul of Africa”—are all told here with wrenching honesty and agile wit.<BR />  <BR /> Hailed as “one of the greatest adventure books of all time” by <I>Newsweek</I> and “the sort of book that makes you think human beings can do anything” by the<I> New York Times, West with the Night</I> remains a powerful testament to one of the iconic lives of the twentieth century.<BR />  </DIV>
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