West With the Night: A Memoir [Audiobook] download free by Beryl Markham
- Listen audiobook: West With the Night: A Memoir
- Author: Beryl Markham
- Release date: 2013/5/14
- Publisher: NORTH POINT PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780865477636
- Rating: 7.57 of 10
- Votes: 598
- Review by: Grant Hallman
- Review rating: 7.84 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/1
- Duration: 3H57M16S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-18
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, Vorbis, MP3, WAV, MPEG4, WMA (compression EML, RAR, CBR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 25 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M4S (5 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our timeBeryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen. If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond all measure. Born Beryl Clutterbuck in the middle of England, she and her father moved to Kenya when she was a girl, and she grew up with a zebra for a pet; horses for friends; baboons, lions, and gazelles for neighbors. She made money by scouting elephants from a tiny plane. And she would spend most of the rest of her life in East Africa as an adventurer, a racehorse trainer, and an aviatrix-she became the first person to fly nonstop from Europe to America, the first woman to fly solo east to west across the Atlantic. Hers was indisputably a life full of adventure and beauty. And then there is the writing. When Hemingway read Markham's book, he wrote to his editor, Maxwell Perkins: 'She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer . . . [She] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers . . . It is really a bloody wonderful book.' With a new introduction by Sara Wheeler-one of Markham's few legitimate literary heirs-West with the Night should once again take its place as one of the world's great adventure stories.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Geographical Discovery & Exploration, Memoirs, Guidebooks, Biography: General, Autobiography: General
- Download servers: Dropbox, Torrent, 4Shared, Pixeldrain, FileServe. Compressed in EML, RAR, CBR, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.53 USD
- Dimensions: 137.16x205.74x25.4mm
- Weight: 272.15g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United Kingdom
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