West With the Night

by Beryl Markham
I’m finally getting around to reading this after receiving it as a gift a couple of years ago. I read part of it right after I got it but didn’t have the time to really appreciate the slow, thoughful, descriptive prose. Markham grew up in Africa (born in England in 1902, she was taken by her father to British East Africa in 1906). She learned how to hunt from local native tribesmen and was apprenticed to her father as a breeder and trainer of horses. She went on to become the first female brush pilot in Africa, and later became the first person to fly the Atlantic from East to West. Fascinating woman!
(Book 6 in 2005)