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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.
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West with the night, Beryl Markham, Martha Gellhorn
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- Rok vydání
- 2015
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- Titul
- West with the night
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Beryl Markham, Martha Gellhorn
- Vydavatel
- Virago Press
- Rok vydání
- 2015
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0860685411
- ISBN13
- 9780860685418
- Série
- Štítky
- Naučná literatura, Historické téma, Historie, Mapy & Cestování, Skutečné příběhy, Životopisy, Cestování, Dobrodružství, Autobiografie & Memoáry, Přátelství, 20. století, Britská literatura, Afrika, Létání
- Původní název
- West with the night
- Hodnocení
- 4,15 z 5
- Anotace
- 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.