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'Beryl Markham lived out past the edges of herself and that boldness and sheer originality come through on every page of West With the Night . Kenya's early frontier - harsh and romantic - flickers to life as do Beryl's many adventures but it's her unconquerable spirit that truly inspired and transported me. Her life deserves a second look and this book - a masterpiece - its rightful place in history' Paula McLain Unconventional passionate and couragous Beryl Markham was one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century: as a child in Kenya she spoke Swahili and hunted barefoot with the Murani tribe as a woman she was a society beauty who courted scandal a celebrated racehorse trainer and a famous pioneering aviator. 'Written so well and marvellously well that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer . . . [She] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers . . . It is really a bloody wonderful book' Ernest Hemingway ' West With the Night is the sort of book that makes you think human beings can do anything . . . When she was a mere child she was clawed by a lion. This should have been enough to make anybody timid for life but not Beryl . . . A jewel of taut writing and thrilling reading' New York Times With an introduction by Martha Gellhorn

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