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West with the night / Beryl Markham.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection TL540.M345 A3 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Markham, Beryl.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Markham, Beryl.
- Women air pilots--Biography.
- Women air pilots.
- Women air pilots--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women air pilots--Africa--Biography.
- Africa, East--Description and travel.
- Africa, East.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 293 p. ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : North Point Press, 1983.
- Summary:
- West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.
- Contents:
- Message from Nungwe
- Men with blackwater die
- Stamp of wilderness
- Why do we fly?
- He was a good lion
- Still is the land
- Praise God for the blood of the bull
- And we be playmates, thou and I
- Royal exile
- Was there a horse with wings?
- My trail is north
- Hodi!
- Na Kupa Hati M'Zuri
- Errands of the wind
- Birth of a life
- Ivory and Sansevieria
- I may have to shoot him
- Captives of the rivers
- What of the hunting, hunter bold?
- Kwaheri means farewell
- Search for a Libyan fort
- Benghazi by candlelight
- West with the night
- Sea will take small pride.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1942.
- ISBN:
- 0865471185 (alk. paper; pbk)
- 9780865471184 (alk. paper; pbk.)
- OCLC:
- 9642470
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