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    The story of Africa’s first female bush pilot

    The book West with the Night is a poetic and energetic memoir from Africa’s first female bush pilot. Beryl Markham recounts her freewheeling childhood among lions and giraffes and her high-flying adventures around the largely uncharted regions of Kenya in the early 1900s. Even Ernest Hemingway said of the author, “She has written so well, and marvellously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer.”

The story of Africa’s first female bush pilot

The book West with the Night is a poetic and energetic memoir from Africa’s first female bush pilot. Beryl Markham recounts her freewheeling childhood among lions and giraffes and her high-flying adventures around the largely uncharted regions of Kenya in the early 1900s. Even Ernest Hemingway said of the author, “She has written so well, and marvellously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer.”

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