West with the Night

by Beryl Markham

Denys has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

The essence of elephant-hunting is discomfort in such lavish proportions that only the wealthy can afford it.