![]() But can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and some times making an okay pig pen. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. Ernest Hemingway wrote in a letter to editor Maxwell Perkins: "Did you read Beryl Markhams 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 in her flyers log book. Published in 1942, the book was favorably received, and revealed in detail the story of her childhood in British East Africa, her career as a horse trainer and bush pilot, and her pioneering transatlantic flight. In 1939, three years after she became the first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from London to North America, Beryl Markham moved to the United States where she began writing her autobiography. ![]() Books signed by Markham are uncommon, particularly in this condition. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. ![]() Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. First edition, first state with the date of 1942 to the title page of Beryl Markham’s classic autobiography. ![]()
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