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West with the Night (Paperback)
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West with the Night (Paperback)
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2010 Reprint of 1942 First Edition. Markham is often described as
"the first person" to fly the Atlantic east to west in a solo
non-stop flight, though most now dispute this claim. When Markham
decided to take on the Atlantic crossing, no pilot had yet flown
non-stop from Europe to New York, and no woman had made the
westward flight solo, though several had died trying. Markham hoped
to claim both records. On September 4, 1936, she took off from
Abingdon, England. After a 20-hour flight she crash-landed at
Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. In spite of
falling short of her goal, Markham had become the first woman to
cross the Atlantic east-to-west solo, and the first person to make
it from England to North America non-stop. She was celebrated as an
aviation pioneer. Markham chronicled her many adventures in her
memoir, West with the Night, published in 1942. Despite strong
reviews in the press, the book sold modestly, and then quickly went
out of print. After living for many years in the United States,
Markham moved back to Kenya in 1952, becoming for a time the most
successful horse trainer in the country.
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