The Illustrated West With the Night [Hardcover]

Beryl Markham (Author), Linda Sunshine (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1994

Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Africa, Markham's classic autobiography is now being offered for the first time in a visual format. Certain to become a collector's item, the book features stunning never-before-published photographs of the famous female aviator--the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west--as well as stunning African landscapes, wildlife and African tribes.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Markham's West with the Night was originally published in the early 1940s and disappeared, only to be rediscovered and reprinted in the 1980s when it became a smash hit. This latest incarnation is a lavishly illustrated edition. Though Markham is known for setting an aviation record for a solo flight across the Atlantic from East to West-hence the title-she was also a bush pilot in Africa, sharing adventures with Blor Blixen and Denys Finch-Hatton of Out of Africa fame. Hemingway, who met Markham during his safari days, dubbed the book "bloody wonderful."
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Review

Beryl Markham was the first woman in Africa, where she grew up, to earn a pilot's license, and she went on be the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic. She was also a horse breeder, an adventurer and a writer of exquisite sensibilities. With elegant prose she describes her life in Africa and in the clouds in this beautifully illustrated reissue of her 1940s classic. -- From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Welcome Enterprises; Subsequent edition (November 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556703856
• ISBN-13: 978-1556703850
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #537,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Let the Story Take you there., June 14, 2007

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Tiffany K-Christian "Tiffany" (Bellingham WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Illustrated West With the Night (Hardcover)

It is debateable whether or not Beryl's husband helped to write this story. He was a writer and must have inluenced her in some ways. However, there are books other than "The lives of Beryl Markham" that give insight to the depth of his inluences upon her writing and also present Beryl's opinion on this subject. In Beryl's "African Stories" compiled by a woman who interviewed Beryl it becomes clear that Raoul's writing style did not match the writing style of this book. Raoul focused on scandal and tried to write his own story about Beryl in which scandal played a large part to help make the book popular. In Beryl's opinion the scandals of her life were unimportant details. Horses and African life were her truths and the details surrounding these truths were what she wanted to convey to the world. She used artisitc liscence. One surely should be able to to use this skill if one is writing about ones own life. Stories are not required to be as reality shows are today. The book is not titled "West With The Night A True Story". It was not meant to be taken with a grain of salt. It was meant to immerse the reader, take them to a different place if you will and make them feel as though they lived it. Allow the book to be what it is, enjoy the fine writing and let it take you to where you may have never been before. Read further and discover more. It is a facinating mystery touched by so many factors many of which we may never know because the one person who could tell us whether or not she wrote the book is dead and gone.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars About This Illustrated Edition, June 17, 2008

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Theseus "theseus" (US of A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Illustrated West With the Night (Hardcover)

This is the illustrated edition of West With the Night, published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1994. A handsome, quality book with a sewn binding, dustcover, and hardback boards that are quarter-cloth, 3/4's pictorial (clouds.) I think it is pretty! Heavy weight paper with something like over 125 illustrations integrated into the flow of the text.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A life-changing read-Even better than Out of Africa!, August 8, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Illustrated West With the Night (Hardcover)

Beryl Markam's controversial "West with the Night" gives a vivid, personal view of life in colonial Kenya. A geat aviator and race horse trainer, Beryl Markham gives new life to women everywhere.