$43.47
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
22 January 2013
Summary
A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time
Beryl Markham’s West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen.
If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond all measure. Born Beryl Clutterbuck in the middle of England, she and her father moved to K…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780865477636 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0865477639 |
| Author: | Beryl Markham, Sara Wheeler |
| Publisher: | North Point Press |
| Imprint: | North Point Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 22 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 137mm x 206mm |
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Critics Review
“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 completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers. The only parts of it that I know about personally, on account of having been there at the time and heard the other people’s stories, are absolutely true … I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book.” –Ernest Hemingway
“West with the Night is the sort of book that makes you think human beings can do anything … When she was a mere child, she was clawed by a lion. This should have been enough to make anybody timid for life, but not Beryl … A jewel of taut writing and thrilling reading … The girl can write.” –John Chamberlain, The New York Times
Beryl Markham
Beryl Markham (1902-1986) was a British-born Kenyan aviatrix, adventurer, and racehorse trainer.
Sara Wheeler is the author of, most recently, The Magnetic North and Access All Areas.
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