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“West With the Night, a Life in Africa” by Beryl Markham. Recorded Books. Long in the shadow of Isak Dinesen, her more spectacular literary contemporary, Beryl Markham emerges here as an airborne poet whose prose is as exciting as the flights she charts over the wild, haunting terrain of East Africa. All of the drama she recounts with telling detail and magnetic metaphor is real--and hers. Markham was the first person to ever fly solo from England to New York (she did it in 1936). Before that she was the first female commercial pilot in East Africa. Lovers of flying and fine language will prize this journal, impeccably read in its unabridged form by Alexandra O’Karma. Information: (800) 638-1304. ****