Beryl Markham is someone who you would want to meet and study, I think. This story is nuts, but at the same time, it lacks the pull of human relationships that generally carry me through a story. People obviously read for different reasons, but for me it is relationships that pull me through a sto...
The language was lush and hypnotic, and the stories were compelling. There was more left out, one felt, than told- and a bit of research confirmed this. The anecdotes, while powerful, seemed disconnected and somewhat choppy. The narrator was quite good, save for a few peculiarities of pronunciation....
The order of some of the chapters is somewhat puzzling. I can only guess that she chose what she considered the most memorable events/periods in her life and wrote a chapter about each. Some of the chapters were way more exciting than others. But overall the writing is quite impressive, considering...
Beryl Markham was an extraordinary lady. She could train race horses to perfection, track lions and elephants, and speak Swahili with the natives. She was the first person to fly the Atlantic solo westbound. She was also an extraordinary writer. Her autobiography, West With The Night is one of th...
Taken to Kenya at age three, in 1905, Beryl Markham was raised on a farm by her father and a much-hated governess – her mother soon re-abandoned pioneer life for England. And while other girls were groomed to be ladies of society, she learned to ride and train horses, played with the Nandi boys livi...
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