![]() Markham’s successes and her failures-and her deep, lifelong love of the “soul of Africa”-are all told here with wrenching honesty and agile wit. In 1936, she accepted the ultimate challenge: to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west, a feat that fellow female aviator Amelia Earhart had completed in reverse just a few years before. She trained as a bush pilot at a time when most Africans had never seen a plane. ![]() ![]() A contemporary of Karen Blixen (better known as Isak Dinesen, the author of Out of Africa), Markham left an enduring memoir that soars with astounding candor and shimmering insights.Ī rebel from a young age, the British-born Markham was raised in Kenya’s unforgiving farmlands. Not only did she set records and break barriers as a pilot, she shattered societal expectations, threw herself into torrid love affairs, survived desperate crash landings-and chronicled everything. ![]() The classic memoir of Africa, aviation, and adventure-the inspiration for Paula McLain’s Circling the Sun and “a bloody wonderful book” (Ernest Hemingway).īeryl Markham’s life story is a true epic. ![]()
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