{"product_id":"west-with-the-night-a-memoir","title":"West with the Night: A Memoir","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWest with the Night: A Memoir\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBeryl Markham\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780865477636\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNorth Point Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2013\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eSecond\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e293\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeryl Markham's \u003ci\u003eWest with the Night \u003c\/i\u003eis a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 and her father moved to Kenya when she was a girl, and she grew up with a zebra for a pet; horses for friends; baboons, lions, and gazelles for neighbors. She made money by scouting elephants from a tiny plane. And she would spend most of the rest of her life in East Africa as an adventurer, a racehorse trainer, and an aviatrix--she became the first person to fly nonstop from Europe to America, the first woman to fly solo east to west across the Atlantic. Hers was indisputably a life full of adventure and beauty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And then there is the writing. When Hemingway read Markham's book, he wrote to his editor, Maxwell Perkins: \"She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer . . . [She] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers . . . It is really a bloody wonderful book.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With a new introduction by Sara Wheeler--one of Markham's few legitimate literary heirs--\u003ci\u003eWest with the Night \u003c\/i\u003eshould once again take its place as one of the world's great adventure stories.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"North Point Press","offers":[{"title":"West with the Night: A Memoir | Beryl Markham | Paperback | 9780865477636 | Used: Good | Back Stacks I 1771099","offer_id":50751663210754,"sku":"1771099","price":27.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81L3b63ywTL.jpg?v=1791987762","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/west-with-the-night-a-memoir","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}