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The Lives of Beryl Markham
by: Errol Trzebinski

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.13092
EAN: 9780393312522
ISBN: 0393312526
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 398
Publication Date: 1995-03
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Sales Rank: 384795
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company

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Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen's love story became the basis for the Oscar-winning film Out of Africa. Now, the author of Silence Will Speak reveals a twist in their relationship: Beryl Markham, one of the century's greatest free spirits, pursued Hatton in fierce competition.

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- Unpleasant Truth
After reading Beryl's memoir, West With the Night, I wanted to find out more about this woman who rubbed shoulders with Karen Blixen and Denys Finch Hatton. Boy, I wish I hadn't! However true it may be, this biography paints an unflattering portrait of a woman who was likely bipolar, with strong tendencies to mania. Her fame as a record-setting aviation pioneer is vastly overshadowed by the fact that she bed-hopped all across Africa, Europe and America, drifting from marriage to marriage and abandoning her own child.

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- Read Straight On Till Morning...
Read the biography by Mary Lovell, Straight On Till Morning. Beryl Markham was a remarkable woman, albeit not really enculturated to her "Britishness," due to upbringing etc...but this running with the boys and learning to hunt was the root of her disaffection with life in England, and probably the root of her relationships. She did what a lot of women ddn't even know one could. And no one taught us in school that she was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane...how judgemental is that?! A fascinating life all the way.

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- excellent purchase
I bought this book as a gift, and it was very well received. Thank you.

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- Finding Beryl Markham
After reading "West with the Night" I wanted to know who is this brilliant woman? The biography is hard to follow because events and persons are mixed in a weird cocktail. The author does not follow a clear story line, has perhaps just as little writing talent as she claims Beryl Markham did. Beryl's uninhibited life in Africa and Los Angeles is documented, but not much credit given to her remarkable talents this woman obviously possessed. Her third husband Raoul Schumacher, a Hollywood ghostwriter, is believably credited with the authorship of "West with the Night". He couldn't have written so well without the vivid recollections about horsebreeding, aviation and animal behavior in Africa by his wife Beryl Markham, whom he adored.
This biography is a hodgepodge through which one most roam to come about facts. Like for instance what kind of monoplane did she fly from London to New York etc.? Was the year 1932?

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