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West with the Night
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West with the Night (1942) (edit title/settings)

by Beryl Markham (Author) (edit contributors)

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This is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s. Controversery surrounds whether or not Markham actually wrote this book herself, or whether her lover, Thomas Baker is the real author.

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Story of Beryl Markham, aviator, racehorse trainer, and her life in Kenya in the 1920's and '30's.

Characters/People edit see section history

  • Paddy: lion owned by Elkington - mauled Beryl when she was a child
  • Beryl Markham: daughter of farmer and racehorse trainer who brought her to British East Africa when she was 4 years old, called Lakweit or Beru as a child by the Marandi hunters, and Lakwani later
  • Baron von Blixen, aka "Blix": Swedish, noted White Hunter in Africa
  • Buller: Beryl Markham's childhood dog - a fierce part bull terrier, part Engish sheep dog, confirmed cat killer and her protector
  • Arab Kosky: a Murandi tribesman, hunter with and protector of Beryl Markham as a child
  • Arab Maina: Nandi Murani, native friend and protector of Meryl during her childhood.
  • Woody: British East Africa flyer, rescued by Tom Black
  • Kibii, aka Arab Ruta: Kibii is the childhood friend of Beryl, son of Arab Maini, who comes to live and work for/with Beryl after he becomes a "man" of the Murani tribe
  • Tom Black: Friend of Meryl's who taught her to fly. Founder of Wilson Airways, world-record flyer.
  • John Carberry aka, "J.C.": Add a description of this character.
  • Lord Delamere: nearest farm to the Markhams. Lady Markham was Beryl's stand-in mother
  • Elkington: Farm owner near Markhams. Owner of uncaged lion, Paddy, until his attack on Beryl
  • Winston: A demanding elephant hunter who hires Blix and Meryl to locate elephant bulls for him
  • Ebert
  • Otieno
  • Denys Fitch-Hatton: Flyer in Africa who contemplates using planes to locate elephants for White Hunters
  • Klemm
  • Makula
  • Farah
  • Bergner
  • Eric Gooch
  • Kupa Hati
  • Kavirondo
  • Sonny
  • Abdullah Ali
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried -- leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it.”
    Beryl Markham

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How is it possible to bring order out of memory?

Table of Contents edit see section history

Book One
I. Message from Nungwe
II. Men With Blackwater Die
III. The Stamp of Wilderness
IV. Why Do We Fly?

Book Two
V. He Was a Good Lion
VI. Still is the Land
VII. Praise God for the Blood of the Bull
VIII. And We Be Playmates, Thou and I
IX. Royal Exile
X. Was There a Horse With Wings?

Book Three
XI. My Trail is North
XII. Hodi!
XIII. Na Kupa Hati M'Zuri
XIV. Errands of the Wind

Book Four
XV. Birth of a Life
XVI. Ivory and Sansevieria
XVII. I May Have to Shoot Him
XIX. What of the Hunting, Hunter Bold?
XX. Kwaheri Means Farewell
XXI. Search For a Libyan Fort
XXII. Benghazi by Candlelight
XXIII. West With the Night
XXIV. The Sea Will Take Small Pride

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Desert Solitaire, and followed by Into Thin Air.

This book is in Memoirs. (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Beryl Markham (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1942
ISBN: N/A
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