04476cam a2200853 4500 590192880 TxAuBib 20220724120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781453237915 1453237917 B008NVZF5S Amazon 4107ac6c-95b4-437e-b642-8877596100f4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1006698 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Markham, Beryl. West with the Night [Libby]. Open Road Media, 2012. Atlantic Ocean. airplanes. Nonfiction. Colonialism. colonies. Autobiography. 20th Century. African adventure. British Empire. Adventure. Libya. flying. Horses. 1930s. Aviation. Kenya. twentieth century. Travel writing. memoir. aviatrix. African travel. female pilots. women pilots. Benghazi. denys finch hatton. Bush pilot. history of aviation. thirties. adventurous women. Amelia earhardt. Beryl Clutterbuck. british women. crossing the atlantic. early feminism. early pilots. East African history. female adventurers. female aviator. feminist icons. flying solo. raised in kenya. transatlantic flight. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 9MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>The classic memoir of Africa, aviation, and adventure—the inspiration for Paula McLain's <i>Circling the Sun</i> and "a bloody wonderful book" (Ernest Hemingway).</b><br /> Beryl Markham's life story is a true epic. Not only did she set records and break barriers as a pilot, she shattered societal expectations, threw herself into torrid love affairs, survived desperate crash landings—and chronicled everything. A contemporary of Karen Blixen (better known as Isak Dinesen, the author of <i>Out of Africa</i>), Markham left an enduring memoir that soars with astounding candor and shimmering insights.<br /> <br /> A rebel from a young age, the British-born Markham was raised in Kenya's unforgiving farmlands. She trained as a bush pilot at a time when most Africans had never seen a plane. In 1936, she accepted the ultimate challenge: to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west, a feat that fellow female aviator Amelia Earhart had completed in reverse just a few years before. Markham's successes and her failures—and her deep, lifelong love of the "soul of Africa"—are all told here with wrenching honesty and agile wit.<br /> <br /> Hailed as "one of the greatest adventure books of all time" by <i>Newsweek</i> and "the sort of book that makes you think human beings can do anything" by the <i>New York Times, West with the Night</i> remains a powerful testament to one of the iconic lives of the twentieth century.<br />. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-24 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2363-1/410/7AC/6C/WestwiththeNight9781453237915.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4107AC6C-95B4-437E-B642-8877596100F4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2363-1/410/7AC/6C/WestwiththeNight9781453237915.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4107AC6C-95B4-437E-B642-8877596100F4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2363-1/410/7AC/6C/WestwiththeNight9781453237915.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4107AC6C-95B4-437E-B642-8877596100F4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)