West with the night / Beryl Markham.
Material type: TextPublication details: San Francisco : North Point Press, 1983.Description: 293 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0865471185 (alk. paper)
- 9780865471184 (alk. paper)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | Markham, B. M345 | Available | 33111006192450 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.
Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1942.
Message from Nungwe -- Men with blackwater die -- Stamp of wilderness -- Why do we fly? -- He was a good lion -- Still is the land -- Praise God for the blood of the bull -- And we be playmates, thou and I -- Royal exile -- Was there a horse with wings? -- My trail is north -- Hodi! -- Na Kupa Hati M'Zuri -- Errands of the wind -- Birth of a life -- Ivory and Sansevieria -- I may have to shoot him -- Captives of the rivers -- What of the hunting, hunter bold? -- Kwaheri means farewell -- Search for a Libyan fort -- Benghazi by candlelight -- West with the night -- Sea will take small pride.