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    <body><![CDATA[This letter from Ernest Hemingway to Maxwell Perkins in 1942 sums up the book better than I ever could:<br/><br/>&quot;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 i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2982225">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The following passage is an example of why I loved this book.  <br/><br/>A messenger came from the farm with a story to tell.  It was not a story that meant much as stories went in those days.  It was about how the war progressed in German East Africa and about a tall young man who was killed in i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4601501">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Markham is like a breath of fresh air. The world of training horses, Africa and airplanes is so deliciously foreign to me, I could have read 500 more pages. I found the writer to be undeniably feminine yet no-nonsense. <br/><br/>I would recommend this book to all my free spirited friends. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a pilot and a traveler to Africa myself, I read this book with interest. I was prepared for an exciting travelogue concerning subjects with which I had some commerce. What I was not prepared for was the prose, which flowed like a great river: powerful, subtle, perfectly apt, and remarkably unself...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15569058">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[how is this book such a sleeper?<br/>truly one of the best reads:  beautiful, insightful, inspiring, moving... all that you could hope for from a memoir.  <br/>highly recommended.<br/>Ernest Hemmingway, the author's friend and admirer, had this to say:  &quot;Did you read Beryl Markham's book, We...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6664966">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a good read, and a good companion to Out of Africa. However, two things struck me as strange with this work. #1 I felt much as I did with Out of Africa that the author really wasn't telling me the entire story, and #2, I kept having to remind myself that the main character was a woman ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18172908">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It has been years since I read this book, but I remember absolutely adoring it at the time.  A lot of that was the energetic writing style, along with the fact of having a strong female character in the book that wasn't easily intimidated.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[“As the herd [impala, wildebeest, zebra:] moved it became a carpet of rust-brown and grey and dull red. It was not like a herd of cattle or of sheep because it was wild, and it carried with it the stamp of wilderness and the freedom of a land still more a possession of Nature than of men. To see t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42553301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beryl Markham was an extraordinary lady. She could train race horses to perfection, track lions and elephants, and speak Swahili with the natives. She was the first person to fly the Atlantic solo westbound. She was also an extraordinary writer.<br/>    Her autobiography, West With The Night is one...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39216815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I don't think I will be as prolific as Laura B. or as gifted a writer as Laura M. - but here goes. <br/><br/>Once in a very long while, you come across a book, that you know will stay in your heart forever.  This is one of them.  I knew after reading the first two paragraphs that this book was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76182257">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best written books that you can ever hope to read.  It is pure poetry.  You won't simply read this book, you will feel yourself with the author as a child of the early 1900's, hunting in the jungles of Africa with the Masai. You, as a little girl, will fight off a lion. You will be one of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74841940">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was published in 1942. The author was born in 1902 in England and her father took her to Africa in 1906. This book was amazing in the way it was written. Just a sample from page 45....&quot;There is no twilight in East Africa. Night tramps on the heels of Day with little gallantry and take...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53781148">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I enjoy Antoine de St. Exupery, nature writing, and books about daring female adventurers who--at nearly every turn--challenge societal expectations and perceptions of what is possible, Beryl Markham's <em>West With the Night</em> somehow flew below my radar. Until recently. <br/><br/>Inspired by ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47913257">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[West with the Night, by Beryl Markham.  A.<br/>Narrated by Anna Fields, produced by Blackstone audio, downloaded from audible.com.<br/><br/>Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, describes her childhood on a farm in Kenya, her apprenticeship as a<br/>h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42733797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This really is a lovely book. The writing is excellent, who would have thought that a 1930's horse trainer and aviator  could write so beautifully. The descriptions of Africa and flying are affectionate and vivid, and make this a joy of a read. Beryl Markham - friend of Denys Finch Hatton and Baron ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54263915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a sleeper of a book. It was originally written in the 1950s and languished in obscurity and subsequently went out of print. In the 1980s North Point Press got wind of it and release it again.<br/><br/>West with the Night is an autobiography of a feisty girl born in England but raised by he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70988334">more...</a>]]></body>
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