{"product_id":"west-with-the-night-by-beryl-markham-sara-wheeler-1434y","title":"West with the Night by Beryl Markham, Sara Wheeler","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time  Beryl 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41829904842826,"sku":"1434y","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_e9e00f27-a48b-4494-a410-33065a6091f8.png?v=1764452405","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/west-with-the-night-by-beryl-markham-sara-wheeler-1434y","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}