THE SPLENDID OUTCAST: African Stories.

Literature & Fiction

Markham, Beryl

Contemporary

NORTH POINT PRESS

The Splendid Outcast: The African Stories of Beryl Markham

Arena Books

A chronicle of Markham's growing up in Kenya, sharing hunting adventures with native tribes and her careers as race-horse trainer and aviatrix. 2 cassettes.

West with the Night

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Perfection Learning

West With the Night

Teen & Young Adult

Biographies

Bt Bound

West With the Night: Library Edition

Memoirs

Blackstone Pub

This beautifully written autobiography brings us the remarkable life story of Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. Brought up on a farm in Kenya, Markham chose to stay in Africa when, at seventeen, her father lost their farm and went to Peru. She began an apprenticeship as a racehorse trainer which turned into a highly successful career. In her twenties, Markham gave up horses for airplanes and became the first woman in East Africa to be granted a commercial pilot's license, piloting passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa. As rich and inspiring as when it was first written, West with the Night captures the spirit of a true pioneer woman.

Blackstone Audiobooks

Business & Money

Beryl Markham moved to Kenya with her father at the age of four and stayed until her death in 1986. Her incredible autobiography describes the Africa she learnt to love: her childhood surrounded by the tribal people, her tangles - often nearly fatal - with its wild animals and her passions for racehorses and aeroplanes. Markham achieved notoriety and success as a horse trainer when one of her horses won the most prestigious race in Kenya. She turned her hand to aeroplanes with Denys Finch Hatton, the lover of Karen Blixen, as a teacher and became the first woman in Kenya to receive a commercial pilot's licence. Her adventures and courageous career as a bush pilot are recounted in vivid detail here, along with the richness and fascination of life in Kenya in the twenties and thirties.

Virago Pr

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.

West With The Night

Eight short stories, all set in Africa, explore the author's fascination with horses, her experiences as a pilot, and her love for Africa

Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

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