{"product_id":"west-with-the-night-book-beryl-markham-9781684227440","title":"West with the Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\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-Exup ry, 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49774770389265,"sku":"CIN1684227445G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52095103828241,"sku":"CIN1684227445VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1684227445.jpg?v=1751410248","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/west-with-the-night-buch-beryl-markham-9781684227440","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}