Beryl Markham, like Karen Blixen, could only have come out of Africa. Pioneering aviatrix, flamboyant beauty, brilliant race-horse trainer, unscrupulous seducer - her life story is for every reader who was enthralled by Blixen's exotic world, that of Kenya between the wars.
This fully authorised biography, drawn from the author's personal association with Beryl and her family, paints a vivid portrait of a tempestuous and controversial character. It tells of her friendship with Karen Blixen (though she commandeered Blixen's husband Bror and lover Denys Finch Hatton), of her spectacular courage when she became the first person to fly from England to America, and of the mysteries surrounding her highly praised, bestselling book WEST WITH THE NIGHT.
- ISBN10 0312010966
- ISBN13 9780312010966
- Publish Date 1 September 1987 (first published 21 May 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 November 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 408
- Language English