West with the Night
by Beryl Markham
Recommended by Alastair Humphreys and Hillary Clinton
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Autobiographies, Most Recommended Books, and Travel.
If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond all measure. Born Beryl Clutterbuck in the middle of England, she spent her life defying all expectations of how a woman should live and what a single person can achieve.Markham and her father moved to Kenya when she was a girl, and she grew u...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Autobiographies, Most Recommended Books, and Travel.
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“Great Adventurers a Reading List | This is a beautifully written life story of one of the greatest woman adventurers of all time, from her growing up in subSaharan Africa to her exploits as a pilot.”
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