Memoirs of an English woman who was raised in East Africa and became a pilot in the 1930s. In 1936 she became the first person to fly solo across

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

West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.