A very good book, if you like Africa adventures.
"West With The Night" by Beryl Markham and this is what Hemingway wrote about West With The Night in a private letter >>>
This letter from Ernest Hemingway to Maxwell Perkins in 1942.
"Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvellously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers. The only parts of it that I know about personally, on account of having been there at the time and heard the other people's stories, are absolutely true . . . I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book."--Ernest Hemingway
Should also have said that Markham was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic east to the west.
Phil
