West with the Night A Memoir

Name: West with the Night A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780865477636

ISBN-10: 0865477639

ISBN-13: 9780865477636

Edition: 2nd

Authors: Beryl Markham, Sara Wheeler

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A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our timeBeryl Markham’sWest with the Nightis 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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 1/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.20" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Introduction







Message from Nungwe



Men with Blackwater Die



The 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



The Sea Will Take Small Pride