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WEST WITH THE NIGHT - BERYL MARKHAM KARTONIERT ...

'Beryl Markham lived out past the edges of herself  and that boldness and sheer originality
come through on every page of West With the Night . Kenya's early frontier - harsh and romantic
- flickers to life  as do Beryl's many adventures  but it's her unconquerable spirit that truly
inspired and transported me. Her life deserves a second look and this book - a masterpiece -
its rightful place in history' Paula McLain  Unconventional  passionate and couragous  Beryl
Markham was one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century: as a child in Kenya
she spoke Swahili and hunted barefoot with the Murani tribe  as a woman she was a society
beauty who courted scandal  a celebrated racehorse trainer  and a famous pioneering aviator.  
'Written so well  and marvellously well  that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer .
. . [She] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers . . . 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' New York Times   With an introduction by Martha Gellhorn

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