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West with the Night: A Memoir par Markham, Beryl

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Binding
Paperback
Weight
0 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
0865477639
Book Title
West with the Night : a Memoir
Item Length
8.2 in
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Edition
2
Publication Year
2013
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Beryl Markham
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Travel
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Adventurers & Explorers, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Africa / East
Item Width
5.7 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time Beryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen. If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond all measure. Born Beryl Clutterbuck in the middle of England, she and her father moved to Kenya when she was a girl, and she grew up with a zebra for a pet; horses for friends; baboons, lions, and gazelles for neighbors. She made money by scouting elephants from a tiny plane. And she would spend most of the rest of her life in East Africa as an adventurer, a racehorse trainer, and an aviatrix--she became the first person to fly nonstop from Europe to America, the first woman to fly solo east to west across the Atlantic. Hers was indisputably a life full of adventure and beauty. And then there is the writing. When Hemingway read Markham's book, he wrote to his editor, Maxwell Perkins: "She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer . . . [She] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers . . . It is really a bloody wonderful book." With a new introduction by Sara Wheeler--one of Markham's few legitimate literary heirs-- West with the Night should once again take its place as one of the world's great adventure stories.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0865477639
ISBN-13
9780865477636
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63195583

Product Key Features

Book Title
West with the Night : a Memoir
Edition
2
Author
Beryl Markham
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Adventurers & Explorers, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Africa / East
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Travel
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz

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Intended Audience
Trade
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Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night ? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers. The only parts of it that I know about personally, on account of having been there at the time and heard the other people's stories, are absolutely true . . . I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book., "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night ? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers. The only parts of it that I know about personally, on account of having been there at the time and heard the other people's stories, are absolutely true . . . I wish you would get it and read it because 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 . . . The girl can write." -- John Chamberlain, The New York Times, 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 . . . The girl can write., "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night ? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers. The only parts of it that I know about personally, on account of having been there at the time and heard the other people's stories, are absolutely true . . . I wish you would get it and read it because 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 . . . The girl can write." -John Chamberlain, The New York Times, "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night ? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers. The only parts of it that I know about personally, on account of having been there at the time and heard the other people's stories, are absolutely true . . . I wish you would get it and read it because 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 . . . The girl can write."-John Chamberlain, The New York Times
Dewey Decimal
629.13
Dewey Edition
20

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  • West with the night

    Hard read , too much like a ledger instead of a book to read ,,,, I must read close to 100 books a year different authors . This book was not for me or my husband

    Achat vérifié : OuiÉtat : NeufVendu par : marci*s_books

  • Compelling and artistically written.

    Every sentence in this striking book is incredibly written and full of life. Ms. Markham was not only a remarkable woman, she was a master storyteller. Highly recommend this book to all ages.

    Achat vérifié : OuiÉtat : OccasionVendu par : sportsc4you