E-audiobook
West with the night
Record details
- ISBN: 9781433240867 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1433240866 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Ashland] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 8:57:45. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Anna Fields. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 128802 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Markham, Beryl Women air pilots -- Great Britain -- Biography Women air pilots -- Africa -- Biography |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
This beautifully written autobiography brings us the remarkable life story of Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. Brought up on a farm in Kenya, Markham chose to stay in Africa when, at seventeen, her father lost their farm and went to Peru. She began an apprenticeship as a racehorse trainer which turned into a highly successful career. In her twenties, Markham gave up horses for airplanes and became the first woman in East Africa to be granted a commercial pilot's license, piloting passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa.
