{"product_id":"9780865477636-secondhand-west-with-the-night-a-memoir","title":"West with the Night: A Memoir","description":"A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time   Beryl Markham's  West with the Night  is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and Isak Dinesen.   If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond all measure. Born Beryl Clutterbuck in the middle of England, she and her father moved to Kenya when she was a girl, and she grew up with a zebra for a pet; horses for friends; baboons, lions, and gazelles for neighbors. She made money by scouting elephants from a tiny plane. And she would spend most of the rest of her life in East Africa as an adventurer, a racehorse trainer, and an aviatrix--she became the first person to fly nonstop from Europe to America, the first woman to fly solo east to west across the Atlantic. Hers was indisputably a life full of adventure and beauty.   And then there is the writing. When Hemingway read Markham's book, he wrote to his editor, Maxwell Perkins: \"She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer . . . [She] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers . . . It is really a bloody wonderful book.\"   With a new introduction by Sara Wheeler--one of Markham's few legitimate literary heirs-- West with the Night  should once again take its place as one of the world's great adventure stories.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48957481025755,"sku":"9780865477636-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f897c209-b853-417b-a3a9-266b036ac3fb.jpg?v=1783516022","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780865477636-secondhand-west-with-the-night-a-memoir","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}