West with the Night

West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s. Free Read [ West with the Night ] Author [ Beryl Markham ] – kino-fada.fr This letter from Ernest Hemingway to Maxwell Perkins in 1942 sums up the book better than I ever could Did you read Beryl Markham s book, West with the Night I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer s log book As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was...Being alone in an aeroplane for even a short a time as a night and a day, irrevocably alone, with nothing to observe but your instruments and your own hands in semi darkness, nothing to contemplate but the size of your small courage, nothing to wonder about but the beliefs, the faces, and the hopes rooted in your mind such an experience can be as startling as the first awareness of a stranger walking by your side at night You are the stranger Beryl Markham was the first woman to fly solo o Being alone in an aeroplane for even a short a time as a night and a day, irrevocably alone, with nothing to observe but your instruments and your own hands in semi darkness, nothing to contemplate but the size of your small courage, nothing to...I was very pleasantly surprised at the magical prose and window into worlds of East Africa provided by this memoir Markham is an interesting historical figure for her achievements in aviation and adventuring For example, she was the first female bush pilot in the continent, the first woman to complete an East to West nonstop crossing of the Atlantic ending into a near crash landing in Cape Breton , and a legendary race horse trainer And she was a bit of a celebrity among the glitterati that I was very pleasantly surprised at the magical prose and window into worlds of East Africa provided by this memoir Markham is an interesting historical figure for her achievements in aviation and adventuring For example, she was the first female bush pilot in the continent, the first woman to complete an East to West nonstop crossing of the Atlantic ending into a near crash landing in Cape Breton , and a legendary race horse trainer And she was a bit of a celebrity among the glitterati that set down or passed through Naibobi in her time, a circle that included the famous Swedish safari hunter Baron Blixen and his wife Karen, who wrote Out of Africa under the name Dinesen I understand thatabout these connections is to be found in Maclean s Circling the Sun This book ison the line of essays that showcase Markham s skills in portraying her developing v...This memoir was so lovingly written that I m going to have to reread it to fully appreciate it.Beryl Markham was born in England but moved to Kenya with her family when she was 4 She has amazing stories about surviving a lion attack, becoming a bush pilot, training racehorses, and flying solo across the Atlantic and she flew the difficult way, from east to west, against the wind She is my favorite kind of woman to read about she s tough and adventurous, b...4.5 Stars After reading Paula McLain s Circling The Sun I could not wait to readabout the adventurous life of Beryl Markham.Growing up in Kenya, this amazing and fearless lady was not only a wild animal hunter, horse trainer and accomplished pilot, she was also a great story teller and writerIMHOas evidenced in West With The Night.Skinning animals, running with the native hunting parties for wild boar, surviving a baboon attack in her room and a near death encounter with a lion are onl 4.5 Stars After reading Paula McLain s Circling The Sun I could not wait to readabout the adventurous life of Beryl Markha...2014 Oh, I am so very tempted to read this one again.Shall I do another book about flying Another book about Kenya So soon sigh I probably will give in to temptation because I loved this book beyond measure when I read it as a teenager and Hannah and Jeannette both confirmed my memory of how good it was.2017 So, I did read it again and, as Ernest Hemingway said, I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book For one thing, unlike some of Hemingway s 2014 Oh, I am so very tempted to read this one again.Shall I do another book about flying Another book about Kenya So soon sigh I probably will give in to temptation because I loved this book beyond measure when I read it as a teenager and Hannah and Jeannette both confirmed my memory of how good it was.2017 So, I did read it again and, as Ernest Hemingway said, I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book For one thing, unlike some of Hemingway s books Sorry, Ernest , Markham s memoir is never dull She lived an extraordinary life, a life only possible at a certain moment in time, an African life Markham s Africa.is mystic it is wild it is a sweltering inferno it is a photographer s paradise, a hunter s Valhalla, an escapist s Utopia It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one To a lot of people, as to myself it is just home It ...To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe You know then what you had always been told that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick walled streets and the tyranny of clocks You can be assured that this review will in no way be as well written as Beryl Markham s West with tTo see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe You know then what you had always been told that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick walled streets and the tyranny of clocks You can be assured that this review will in no way be as well written as Beryl Markham s West with the Night Markham was one hell of a woman, yet her story seems to have been lost to history Born in England, but raised by her father in Africa, she never stepped back from a challenge and relished opportunities to look fear in the eye and have fear blink first She was one of the first African bush pilots, the first racehorse tr...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 story not necessarily romantic relationships, you understand, but the way people interact Will they be friends Will they fall in love Will they betray each other There is none of that in this book, s 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 story not necessarily romantic relationships, you understand, but the way people interact Will they be friends Will they fall in love Will they betray each other There is none of that in this book, so it is not an obvious fit for me as a reader in that way It is, however, about a badass woman, who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west.For the most part, people have such interesting lives I mean, even a person who lives the most nor...Embarrassment of Riches noun idiomatic An abundance or overabundance of something too much of a good thing. The above perfectly encapsulates my experience of re reading Beryl Markham s stunning memoir The only caveat I d make is that the last part of the definition makes it sound like a bad thing, when in reality the plethora of descriptive and evocative prose to be found within the 294 pages of this book are about as close to reading nirvana as a I am likely to find in my lifetime.There ar Embarrassment of Riches noun idiomatic An abundance or overabundance of something too much of a good thing. The above perfectly encapsulates my experience of re reading Beryl Markham s stunning memoir The only caveat I d make is that the last part of the definition makes it sound like a bad thing, when in reality the plethora of descriptive and evocative prose to be found within the 294 pages of this book are about as close to reading nirvana as a I am likely to find in my lifetime.There are books And there are books And then there is this book, which only comes around once every 500 books or so in my reading world It s impossible to convey why I loved this book so much the second time around Certainly I enjoyed it when I read it 10 years ago, and remember being captivated by the way Markham could describe a place or a person or, evenremarkably, a feeling But this time I was blown away with the style and perfection of this book Every page conveyed some moving insig...Beryl Markham was an amazing woman, raised in Africa by her father after her mother tired of bush life and bolted back to England with Beryl s brother Without any womanly interference, Charles Clutterbuck was able to let his daughter get a proper education in the Kenyan bush, tearing around the countryside barefoot and toting a spear, hunting with the nearby Nandi people Hers was the world of hunting and horses with the odd bit of bookwork thrown in Beryl clearly worshipped her father, and th Beryl Markham was an amazing woman, raised in Africa by her father after her mother tired of bush life and bolted back to England with Beryl s brother Without any womanly interference, Charles Clutterbuck was able to let his daughter get a proper education in the Kenyan bush, tearing around the countryside barefoot and toting a spear, hunting with the nearby Nandi people Hers was the world of hunting and horses with the odd bit of bookwork thrown in Beryl clearly worshipped her father, and this is quite clear in her book.In fact, there is little mention of anything but men in the memoir Our heroine loved the things that are dearest to men and pursued these inte...

• English
• 24 July 2017
Beryl Markham
• Paperback
• 294 pages
• 0865471185
• Beryl Markham
• West with the Night