West with the Night

Markham, Beryl

ISBN 10: 0786180730 ISBN 13: 9780786180738

Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB, 2005

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Reseña del editor:

The author describes growing up in an Africa that no longer exists, training and breeding race horses, flying mail to Sudan, and being the first woman to fly the Atlantic from east to west.

Biografía del autor:

Beryl Markham (1902-1986), born in England, was taken by her father to East Africa in 1906. She spent her childhood playing with native Maruni children and apprenticing with her father as a trainer and breeder of racehorses. In the 1930s, she became an African bush pilot, and in September 1936, became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west.

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• Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0786180730
• ISBN 13: 9780786180738
• Einband: CD MP3