![]() ![]() This Africa is wild and untamed, even as it is punctuated by British colonialism. She relays foundational memories-childhood hunts alongside Masai Murani, encounters with lions, solo flights over desolate stretches of unmapped eastern Africa, her time working as a race horse trainer-that also provide snapshots of the Africa she knew. ![]() West with the Night reveals her deep love of Africa and its native people, beginning in childhood. While she was born in England, Beryl Clutterbuck (Markham) lived most of her childhood in British Kenya, the daughter of a colonial landowner. Among other things, this memoir reflects Markham’s love affair with Africa and the many ways that the continent formed her as a child and young adult. West with the Night describes in vivid, suspenseful detail her experiences in eastern Africa, even after she left it. Unlike some memoir, Markham’s prose is eloquent, her imagery rich. Markham was a woman who boldly worked in male fields-race horse training and aviation-during the early- to mid-1900s. Beryl Markham’s West with the Night (1942) is an beautifully written memoir that paints a series of powerful portraits of 20th-century Africa. ![]()
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