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"The author describes growing up in an Africa that no longer exists, training and breeding race horses, flying mail to Sudan, and being the first woman to fly the Atlantic from east to west."
"This autobiography brings us the life story of Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. Brought up on a farm in Kenya, Markham chose to stay in Africa when, at seventeen, her father lost their farm and went to Peru. She began an apprenticeship as a racehorse trainer which turned into a highly successful career. In her twenties, Markham gave up horses for airplanes and became the first woman in East Africa to be granted a commercial pilot's license, piloting passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa."
"This autobiography brings us the life story of Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. Brought up on a farm in Kenya, Markham chose to stay in Africa when, at seventeen, her father lost their farm and went to Peru. She began an apprenticeship as a racehorse trainer which turned into a highly successful career. In her twenties, Markham gave up horses for airplanes and became the first woman in East Africa to be granted a commercial pilot's license, piloting passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa."@en
""Although Beryl Markham intended to write about her life as one of the first woman aviators, she also wrote movingly about her childhood in East Africa during the early part of the 20th century."--Website."@en
"Autobiography detailing the author's life in Africa and career as a pilot."@en
"Autobiography detailing the author's life in Africa and career as a pilot."
"West with the night is the story of a remarkable woman molded and shaped by many things - the African jungle, a certain dog, horses, airplanes, friendships with white men and black. There is no life, no story quite like it."@en
"Markham writes about her life as one of the first woman aviatores, and about life in East Africa during the early part of the 20th century."@en
"A gambling vagabond named Speedy arrives in the town of Durfee to find some easy money and instead finds friends and a girl named Mary. But can a rolling stone ever stay in one place?"@en
"This beautifully written autobiography brings us the remarkable life story of Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. Brought up on a farm in Kenya, Markham chose to stay in Africa when, at seventeen, her father lost their farm and went to Peru. She began an apprenticeship as a racehorse trainer which turned into a highly successful career. In her twenties, Markham gave up horses for airplanes and became the first woman in East Africa to be granted a commercial pilot's license, piloting passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa."@en
"The autobiography of Beryl Markham, who spent most of her life in Africa and became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west."
"Memoirs of Beryl Markham, who grew up in East Africa, became a bush pilot in Africa, and in 1936 made the first solo flight east to west across the Atlantic."
"Chronicles the life of Kenyan Beryl Markham who, at 17, chose to stay in Africa when her father moved to Peru. Through an apprenticeship, Markham spent her twenties as a successful racehorse trainer. However, she traded in racehorses for pilot wings. Markham became not only the first woman in East Africa to obtain a commercial pilot's license, but also became the first person the fly east to west across the Atlantic ocean."@en

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"Downloadable audio books"@en
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"Biography"@en
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"West with the night Unabridged"@en
"West with the night"@en
"West with the night"
"West with the night (unabridged)"@en
"Julie Harris reads West with the night"
"West with the Night"@en

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