Cavallo amore mio
- 156 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Beryl Markham Book order (chronological)
Beryl Markham was an English author who emigrated to Kenya in her childhood. Her life was marked by adventure and nonconformity, becoming Kenya's first licensed horse trainer and an accomplished pilot. She captured her experiences and independent spirit in her most famous memoir, which was rediscovered years later and found renewed popularity. Her writing is often associated with wild landscapes and an untamed soul.
A Occidente con la notte
- 302 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Born in England and raised in Kenya, Beryl Markham was a notorious beauty. She trained race horses and had scandalous affairs, but she is most remembered for being a pioneering aviatrix. She became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the first person to make it from London to New York nonstop. In Mary S. Lovell’s definitive biography, Beryl takes on new life—vividly portrayed by a master biographer whose knowledge of her subject is unparalleled.
Rivalen der Wüste und andere Erzählungen aus Afrika
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
West with the night
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Beryl Markham moved to Kenya with her father at the age of four and stayed until her death in 1986. Her incredible autobiography describes the Africa she learnt to love: her childhood surrounded by the tribal people, her tangles - often nearly fatal - with its wild animals and her passions for racehorses and aeroplanes. Markham achieved notoriety and success as a horse trainer when one of her horses won the most prestigious race in Kenya. She turned her hand to aeroplanes with Denys Finch Hatton, the lover of Karen Blixen, as a teacher and became the first woman in Kenya to receive a commercial pilot's licence. Her adventures and courageous career as a bush pilot are recounted in vivid detail here, along with the richness and fascination of life in Kenya in the twenties and thirties.