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One of the most beautifully crafted books I have ever read, with some of the most poetic prose passages I could imagine, such as the following, resonating with a stately and timeless quality so absent in our modern life:
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.Born in England in 1902, Markham was taken by her father to East Africa in 1906. She spent her childhood playing with native Maruni children and apprenticing with her father as a trainer and breeder of racehorses. In the 1930s, she became an African bush pilot, and in September 1936, became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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"Did you read Beryl Markham's 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 flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers. The only parts of it that I know about personally, on account of having been there at the time and heard the other people's stories, are absolutely true . . . I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book."--Ernest Hemingway
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I wasn't reading about Beryl Markham when I first learned of West With the Night. I was reading about Hemingway, a writer who is much better known and more admired than Markham, but to my way of thinking, with little reason. Apparently, Hemingway so admired this book that he was moved to the point of shame to know that he too was called a writer.
Stunningly evocative of life in East Africa in the early part of the 20th Century, West With the Night carries the reader directly into Markham's life. If there was a person lucky enough to have truly lived more than Markham lived, we might in fact have to turn to Hemingway to find him. Having broken all stereotypes before they were known as stereotypes, Markham did 80 years ago what few women today would even imagine. Raised by her widower father, Markham was the only white child within 200 miles in any direction. Under the tutelage of native hunters, she learned to face down lions and elephants, and went on to become a professional horse trainer. But flying was her true calling. Learning the geography of the cockpit from no less an instructor than Tom Black, one of England's best-known bush pilots and an aviator who is still revered, Markham soon became the only woman pilot in East Africa, delivering everything from the mundane (gin for the white hunters) to the life-saving (tanks of oxygen for malaria victims).
Throughout the book, we are treated to some of the most vivid descriptions of an Africa that is long gone. Curiously missing, however, is any sense of her love interests as she grew and matured. We come close when we learn of her affection for Tom Black, but the affection feels brotherly in nature. And, then again, when she partakes of a transcontinental adventure with the dashing Baron von Blixen---one of the legendary characters of colonial Africa--we're never certain if passion played a part. Perhaps the absence of a love interest is a reflection of the more genteel times in which the book was written, or perhaps her true love was Africa and the sense of being truly alive that such a place seems to have imparted to every day of Beryl Markham's life.
But in fact, Markham is still alive--in a way. You cannot help but sense her presence after the first chapter. West With the Night is that good.
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Since the day I finished this book I have searched in vain for something to read that came even close to matching its incredible beauty. This book is a gem -- moving, spiritual, thought provoking. It encompasses a spirit, an era, a place in language that rivals some of the greatest literary works of our time. Markam's prose is poetry, music. And her words manage to bypass the sentimentality that has plagued many a book about africa. What a shame we have only this one book by this wonderful, adventurous and eloquent woman.
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Historic, personal, and romantic tales of a female pioneer in aviation fill the pages of West with the Night. It is beautifully written, poetry put into chapters to tell of the adventures of the developing African frontier. The book follows the life of the Beryl Markham, the author, giving the reader a view into the lives of her native friends, the small social world of the British settlers, and a young girl growing up as the result of the integrating cultures. She is, herself, both fresh and new, one of the first to develop a mindset of blended customs. Besides observing the profits of the British cultural invasion of East Africa, the reader is, all the while, taken on a non-stop ride of African adventures. Like a child, pulling anxiously at your hand, sprinting onward toward further exploration, Markham speeds us through dangers ranging from leopards to the risks of early flight in an unmapped land. It is a mind-boggling world of naturally flowing chaos, deep thought, admiral respect, and truly amazing people, entirly unimaginable to the modern American. Markham has seen it like no one before her and few after, and when she puts it to paper, the reader can see directly into her heart. A must read.
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Westwärts mit der Nacht by Beryl Markham
"Westwärts mit der Nacht" ist der faszinierende Lebensbericht einer außergewöhnlichen Frau, die den größten Teil ihres Lebens in Afrika verbracht hat,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Juli 2007 von Juri Alexejewitsch Gagarin
A beautiful book...
I was talking about Africa one day, and one of my younger friends who had just completed college, recommended this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Mai 2000 von Dianne Foster
Stunning !
There is controversy about who actually wrote this incredible book. Rumor has it that her third husband wrote this delightful autobiography. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Mai 2000 von "iloveprovence"
A great tale -- and true!
As someone who grew up around airplanes and has learned how to fly and is female this is a great book to read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. März 2000 veröffentlicht
Reading WWTN 1985 and 2000 - different perspectives
I first read WWTN in 1985 and was entranced. As a single female officer in the military, Beryl Marckham was my instant role model and figurative soulmate. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. März 2000 von Loretta Rietsema
West With the Night
This is the kind of book that will change the way you think - it will expand your mind, and at the same time make you feel small in comparison to the incredible story this woman... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Januar 2000 von Ali Brod
Requred read that wasn't tedious
I had to read this book as part of a course I was taking at my college, and at first I was not eager to read it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
Probably my favorite book of all time
I'm a reader. There is not a day that goes by that I'm not reading some book or another. If you haven't read this book, I urge you to do so. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Januar 2000 von Walker
Beautiful prose
I picked this up in a garage sale, purely on the strength of the cover picture - it seemed like that face had seen and done a lot - which turns out to be absolutely true! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Januar 2000 von A. J. Watson
True Adventure
Markham description of her life in East Africa provides an great example of a life well lived. Whether she's describing an attack by a lion, or the tribulations of night flying... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Dezember 1999 von "neutral"
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