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West with the Night

West with the Night

West with the Night is a 1942 memoir by Beryl Markham, chronicling her experiences growing up in Kenya in the early 1900s, leading to celebrated careers as a racehorse trainer and bush pilot there. It is considered a classic of outdoor literature and was included in the U.S.A.'s Armed Services Editions shortly after its publication. In 2004, National Geographic Adventure ranked it number 8 in a list of 100 best adventure books.Ernest Hemingway was deeply impressed with Markham's writing, saying


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