Straight on till morning : the biography of Beryl Markham / Mary S. Lovell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lovell, Mary S.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Markham, Beryl.

Air pilots--Great Britain--Biography.

Air pilots.

Women air pilots.

Great Britain.

Africa.

Women air pilots--Great Britain--Biography.

Women air pilots--Africa--Biography.

Women in aeronautics.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xxiv, 408 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Biography of Beryl Markham

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, [1987]

Summary:

The story of the noble-born unconventional Englishwoman, Beryl Markham, who became a famous aviator.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [391]-393.

"Taken as a young child to British East Africa, where she was left by her mother to be raised by a father who trained thoroughbreds for the Nairobi racing scene, Markham grew up to become one of the most daring and courageous women of her time. ... Beryl Markham would twice go on to become a figure of international renown: in 1936, when she became the first person ever to fly the Atlantic solo the hard way--against the headwinds--from England to North America; and again in 1983, when her 1942 memoir, West With the Night, was republished to worldwide literary acclaim."--Dust jacket flap.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of George Doan.

Other Format:

Online version: Lovell, Mary S. Straight on till morning.

ISBN:

0312010966 :

OCLC:

16079234