The Lives Of Beryl Markham
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West with the Night
Author | : Beryl Markham |
Publsiher | : Rare Treasure Editions |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2024-03-12T00:00:00Z |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781774646731 |
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West With the Night is the 1942 memoir by Beryl Markham, chronicling her experiences growing up in Kenya in the early 1900s, leading to a career as a bush pilot there. 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. When Markham decided to take on the Atlantic crossing, no pilot had yet flown it non-stop. Markham became the first woman to cross the Atlantic east-to-west solo, and the first person to make it from England to North America non-stop. She was celebrated as an aviation pioneer. Markham chronicled her many adventures in this memoir. After living for many years in the United States, Markham moved back to Kenya in 1952, becoming for a time the most successful horse trainer in the country.
The Lives of Beryl Markham
Author | : Errol Trzebinski |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1994-11-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393312526 |
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Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen's love story became the basis for the Oscar-winning film Out of Africa. Now, the author of Silence Will Speak reveals a twist in their relationship: Beryl Markham, one of the century's greatest free spirits, pursued Hatton in fierce competition. Photos.
Straight On Till Morning
Author | : Mary S. Lovell |
Publsiher | : Abacus |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2012-05-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781405517904 |
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Beryl Markham, like Karen Blixen, could only have come out of Africa. Pioneering aviatrix, flamboyant beauty, brilliant race-horse trainer, unscrupulous seducer - her life story is for every reader who was enthralled by Blixen's exotic world, that of Kenya between the wars. This fully authorised biography, drawn from the author's personal association with Beryl and her family, paints a vivid portrait of a tempestuous and controversial character. It tells of her friendship with Karen Blixen (though she commandeered Blixen's husband Bror and lover Denys Finch Hatton), of her spectacular courage when she became the first person to fly from England to America, and of the mysteries surrounding her highly praised, bestselling book WEST WITH THE NIGHT.
Beryl Markham
Author | : Catherine Gourley |
Publsiher | : Conari Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1997-03-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781609252250 |
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Markham, an early pioneer in aviation, was a passionate, free-spirited girl struggling to come to terms with her identity and her place in the world. This biography tells of the obstacles she faced and how she overcame adversity to follow her dreams of flying.
Circling the Sun
Author | : Paula McLain |
Publsiher | : Bond Street Books |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2015-07-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780385677226 |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS • “Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of The Paris Wife will be captivated by Circling the Sun, which . . . is both beautifully written and utterly engrossing.”—Ann Patchett, Country Living This powerful novel transports readers to the breathtaking world of Out of Africa—1920s Kenya—and reveals the extraordinary adventures of Beryl Markham, a woman before her time. Brought to Kenya from England by pioneering parents dreaming of a new life on an African farm, Beryl is raised unconventionally, developing a fierce will and a love of all things wild. But after everything she knows and trusts dissolves, headstrong young Beryl is flung into a string of disastrous relationships, then becomes caught up in a passionate love triangle with the irresistible safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and the writer Baroness Karen Blixen. Brave and audacious and contradictory, Beryl will risk everything to have Denys’s love, but it’s ultimately her own heart she must conquer to embrace her true calling and her destiny: to fly.
Flying Against the Wind
Author | : Andy Russell Bowen |
Publsiher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780761382607 |
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Born in England and raised in the bush of East Africa, Beryl Markham was an extraordinary child--and lived an extraordinary life. She learned how to train racehorses from her father and became the first woman to succeed in Kenya's competitive racing circu
Promise the Night
Author | : Michaela MacColl |
Publsiher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-11-18 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781452111476 |
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Immediately compelling and action-packed, this carefully researched work of historical fiction introduces young readers to the childhood of the famous yet elusive Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo from England to North America. As in her debut novel, Prisoners in the Palace, MacColl propels readers into a multilayered story with an unforgettable heroine and evocative language that brings the backdrop of colonial British East Africa to life. A fascinating read for anyone with a thirst for adventure.
Too Close to the Sun
Author | : Sara Wheeler |
Publsiher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2009-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812968927 |
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A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Denys Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler tells the truth about this extraordinarily charismatic adventurer. Born to an old aristocratic family that had gambled away most of its fortune, Finch Hatton grew up in a world of effortless elegance and boundless power. In 1910, searching for something new, he arrived in British East Africa and fell in love–with a continent, with a landscape, with a way of life that was about to change forever. In Nairobi, Finch Hatton met Karen Blixen and embarked on one of the great love affairs of the twentieth century. Intellectual equals, Finch Hatton and Blixen were genuine pioneers in a land that was quickly being transformed by violence, greed, and bigotry. Ever restless, Finch Hatton wandered into a career as a big-game hunter and became an expert bush pilot. Mesmerized all his life by the allure of freedom and danger, Finch Hatton was, writes Wheeler, “the open road made flesh.”