Beryl Markham Knihy
Beryl Markham byla anglická autorka, která v dětství emigrovala do Keni. Její život byl plný dobrodružství a nekonvenčního chování, stala se první licencovanou trenérkou koní v Keni a také pilotkou. Své zkušenosti a životní postoje zachytila ve své nejslavnější autobiografické knize, která byla znovuobjevena a dosáhla popularity po letech. Její psaní je často spojováno s divokou krajinou a nezávislým duchem.
West with the night
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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.
