{"product_id":"west-with-the-night-book-beryl-markham-9788087830604","title":"West with the Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003eBeryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and Isak Dinesen.\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e With a new introduction by Sara Wheeler--one of Markham's few legitimate literary heirs--West with the Night should once again take its place as one of the world's great adventure stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49526646833425,"sku":"CIN8087830601G","price":9.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51328874152209,"sku":"CIN8087830601VG","price":9.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53251124527377,"sku":"GOR007188752","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8087830601.jpg?v=1751351402","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/west-with-the-night-book-beryl-markham-9788087830604","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}