West with the night [sound recording] / Beryl Markham.

Unabridged.

Auburn, CA : Audio Partners, p2003.

8 sound discs (9 hr., 12 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Chronicles the life of Kenyan Beryl Markham who, at 17, chose to stay in Africa when her father moved to Peru. Through an apprenticeship, Markham spent her twenties as a successful racehorse trainer. However, she traded in racehorses for pilot wings. Markham became not only the first woman in East Africa to obtain a commercial pilot's license, but also became the first person the fly east to west across the Atlantic ocean.

English

April 23, 2012

Read by Julie Harris.

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