An edition of West with the night (1942)

West with the night

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An edition of West with the night (1942)

West with the night

Paperback edition
  • 3.8 (6 ratings) ·
  • 55 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

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.

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Language
English
Pages
293

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Cover of: West with the night
West with the night
2013
in English - Paperback edition
Cover of: West with the night
West with the night: And related readings (Literature connections)
1997, McDougal Littell, MCDOUGAL LITTEL
Unknown Binding in English
Cover of: The illustrated West with the night
The illustrated West with the night
1994, Welcome Enterprises, Distributed in the U.S. by Stewart, Tabori & Chang
in English
Cover of: West with the night
West with the night
1983, North Point Press
in English
Cover of: West with the night
West with the night
1942, Houghton Mifflin company
in English

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Table of Contents

Message from Nungwe
Men with blackwater die
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.

Edition Notes

"Originally published in 1942 by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston"--Title page verso.

Accelerated Reader UG 7.3 15 10148

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
629.13092, B
Library of Congress
TL540.M345 A3 2013,

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 293 pages
Number of pages
293

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27227769M
Internet Archive
westwithnight0000mark_q1e2
ISBN 10
0865477639
ISBN 13
9780865477636
LCCN
2013498448
OCLC/WorldCat
824770216

Work Description

A pioneer aviator's life in Africa.

From a letter to Maxwell Perkins:
"Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write her flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers. The only parts of it that I know about personally, on account of having been there at the time and heard the other people's stories, are absolutely true. ... I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book." (Ernest Hemingway)

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