The Illustrated West With the Night
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556703856 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Certain to become a collector's item, the book features stunning never-before-published photographs of the famous female aviator--the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west--as well as stunning African landscapes, wildlife and African tribes.. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Africa, Markham's classic autobiography is now being offered for the first time in a visual format
Constant Reader said Classic re-read. This book comes with a built-in audiencewomen, pilots, lovers of Africa, lonersand, above all, those who love the English language and how descriptive it can be.This is NOT a memoir; more a series of vignettes that Markham put together from her memory which she announces from the beginning that is extremely hard to recover accurately.. "Corageous, respectful, unique" according to susan. The first chapters somehow missed the mark with me. But I am so,so glad I kept reading. It is hard to find the right words to describe this book and the person who wrote. She grew up in the early years of the 29th century hunting barefoot in East Africa with her dog, her spear and Murani men. The rest of her life was no less unconvent. Bill Manion said 191940's style memoir of a fascinating woman. Bill Manion Reads in the 1940 style prose that fits the memoir. It is a well done work that if your first taste of Beryl Markham you will become interested in her life. However, would recommend first reading other works (i.e. Straight on Until Morning and Circling the Sun) on Markham before reading her own memoir. It will make this much more inte. 0's style memoir of a fascinating woman.. Reads in the 191940's style memoir of a fascinating woman. Bill Manion Reads in the 1940 style prose that fits the memoir. It is a well done work that if your first taste of Beryl Markham you will become interested in her life. However, would recommend first reading other works (i.e. Straight on Until Morning and Circling the Sun) on Markham before reading her own memoir. It will make this much more inte. 0 style prose that fits the memoir. It is a well done work that if your first taste of Beryl Markham you will become interested in her life. However, would recommend first reading other works (i.e. Straight on Until Morning and Circling the Sun) on Markham before reading her own memoir. It will make this much more inte
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. Born in England in 1902, Markham was taken by her father to East Africa in 1906. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. This kind of silence can speak. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. One of the most beautifully crafted books I hav