About this title: In this moving autobiography, Beryl Markham describes growing up in East Africa with her horse-breeder father, who taught her to care for and train the animals for racing. In her 20s, Markham discovered flying, and worked as an airborne deliverer of supplies and mail. In 1936, she became the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic ...
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Edition: illustrated ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: North Point Press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780865473041ISBN:0865473048
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Gift Ed. ed. Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: North Point Press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780865473041ISBN:0865473048
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. inscription on first front end paper; stamp at lower ffep read more
Edition: Illus.
Binding: First?
Publisher: North Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780865473041ISBN:0865473048
Description: Ward Schumaker. very good, ex-lib., good. 261, illus. with 32 pages of photographs, some wear to DJ edges, library stamps, library call number sticker taped to DJ spine. In September 1936 Beryl Markham became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, taking off in England and crash-landing in Nova Scotia 29 hours and 25 minutes later. read more
Edition: Illustrated Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: North Point Press, San Francisco
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780865473041ISBN:0865473048
Description: Fine in near fine jacket. Very clean unfaded book with brown boards, small gold illustration on front, clean green cloth spine with unchipped gold lettering. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean brown endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 261 pgs. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean unfaded dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Illustrated edition of ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: North Point Press, San Francisco
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780865473041ISBN:0865473048
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. Quarter bound in green cloth. Illustrated edition. Gift note inked on front flyleaf, otherwise clean, crisp and unmarked. Dust jacket, price-clipped, very slightly rubbed, in new mylar cover. 261pp., 32pp. of photograph illustrations. Much more than a pilot's memoir, Markham recounts her adventures, discoveries, rescues and narrow escapes in poetic prose. read more
Edition: Illus.
Binding: First?
Publisher: North Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780865473041ISBN:0865473048
Description: Ward Schumaker. very good, good. 261, illus. with 32 pages of photographs, some wear to DJ edges. In September 1936 Beryl Markham became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, taking off in England and crash-landing in Nova Scotia 29 hours and 25 minutes later. read more
Edition: Illustrated Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: North Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780865473041ISBN:0865473048
Description: 0865473048. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.; 1.1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 240 pages. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: North Point Press, San Francisco
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780865473041ISBN:0865473048
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. Quarter bound in green cloth. Clean, crisp, unmarked copy. First printing of the illustrated edition. 261pp., 32pp. of photograph illustrations. Much more than a pilot's memoir, Markham recounts her adventures, discoveries, rescues and narrow escapes in poetic prose. Dust jacket in new mylar cover. read more
Description: Good. Dj has shelf wear and edges worn. tanning on edges. little writing on end paper., Used-Good. Sound Copy. Mild Reading Wear. Books uploaded via isbn and stock photos may be different than actual book. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: North Point Pr
Date Published: 10/1/1987
ISBN-13:9780865473041ISBN:0865473048
Description: Good. 0865473048 Clean text. SATISF GNTD + SHIPS W/IN 24 HRS. Sorry, no APO deliveries. Ships in a padded envelope with free tracking. 29, 628e. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: North Point Pr
Date Published: 1987-10
ISBN-13:9780865473041ISBN:0865473048
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: North Point Pr
Date Published: 1987-10
ISBN-13:9780865473041ISBN:0865473048
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Edition: First Printing of the First Illustrated Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: North Point, San Francisco
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780865473041ISBN:0865473048
Description: A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear to the head of the spine. Beryl Markham, a pioneer aviator, was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from London to North America. In the late 20s after her first marriage failed, she returned to Kenya where she met and befriended Denys Finch Hatton, a well-known big-game hunter and in the 30s(? ) lover of another woman writer Isak Dinesen. Karen Blixen was a friend and confidant to Beryl Markham, ... read more
Edition: Illustrated Gift Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: North Point Pr, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780865473041ISBN:0865473048
Description: Collectible-Very Good/Very Good. 0865473048 Illustrated Gift Edition. read more
"One of the best written books that you can ever hope to read. It is pure poetry. You won't simply read this book, you will feel yourself with the author as a child of the early 1900's, hunting in the jungles of Africa with the Masai. You, as a little girl, will fight off a lion. You will be one of the first woman to learn to fly. You will see Africa as it was in the early 20th century, with its plains full of herds and flocks of the most magnificent and ferocious creatures on earth. You will see its mountains, lakes, deserts. You will be there to see all of Africa in its still untouched majesty. In the 1930's in the Rift Valley of Africa, you will train and come to understand horses as you never thought a human could, and then you will get to attend the most exciting horse race you have ever witnessed. I loved this book and will always keep it in my library to read and re-read. Give yourself a treat one of these cool fall nights, and sit down in a cozy chair with your feet up, light a fire (but only if you have a fireplace), pick up this book and float away to another time and place."
"This is a sleeper of a book. It was originally written in the 1950s and languished in obscurity and subsequently went out of print. In the 1980s North Point Press got wind of it and release it again.
West with the Night is an autobiography of a feisty girl born in England but raised by her single father in British East Africa (now Kenya). Beryl Markham made friends with Masai warriors, learned how to hunt with the, as the first woman with a pilot's license in Africa and a pioneer horse trainer there as well. She is best known for being the first woman to fly solo from East to West across the Atlantic Ocean.
To say that Markham was an unconventional person is a gross understatement. She was a little coarse. She was self indulgent. A very entertaining read."
"Like many other people, Beryl Markham lived an incredible adveturous life, however no all autobiographies are so well written. This book is a keeper, I will read it again, more than once, as seldom one comes across such talented author. I have bought a few more copies as gifts."
"Published originally in 1942, this remarkable memoir of a young English woman naturalized to worlds not hers tells a tale worth rereading. Markham's father brought her as a young child to a farm near Nairobi where he came to raise and race horses. This great love he shared with his daughter who imbibed the breeding of thoroughbreds amid the untamed and often untouched terroritories at her doorstep just at the edge of Western civilization in East Africa. The child's native independence carried her into young adulthood and a career training and racing horses. Then a chance encounter with an intrepid English aviator intent on entering the nascent commercial air business in roadless Africa carried her into the air. She took from her new love of flying both a livelihood and a new perspective on the vast continent she called home. With white hunters - guides to wealthy clients on safari - she flew spotting missions for elephants. She delivered mail and all manner of things, people, and aid across trackless territories. She flew to England and back several times in a day when such journeys took at least a week even when Fascist administrators in Italian territories along the way quickly cleared passage. On the last such flight she recounts she departed Africa to stay in England. There she eventually entered a trans-Atlantic air challenge to become the first person to fly the north Atlantic from England to the U.S. Prevailing westerly headwinds and the limitations even of the best aircraft of the mid 1930s made this a dangerous voyage. But she made the crossing, crash-landing in Nova Scotia. From there she spent years in the U.S. eventually returning to Africa. But the real joy of the book is the writer's persona penned in the tales of her African youth with startling style, charm and insight. As Hemingway wrote a friend about the book, "I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book.""
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