The Lives of Beryl Markham
A woman of captivating presence whose affairs scandalized Kenya, Beryl Markham became famous after her pioneering transatlantic solo flight in 1936.
Beryl Markham: Västerut i natten, Ljudbok
Östra Afrika i mitten av 1930-talet: Beryl Markham får ännu ett nattligt uppdrag. Hon hoppar ner i sittbrunnen och flyger iväg i sitt dubbeldäckade flygplan – ut över savanner och djungler och in i mörkret. Från sitt hem i Nairobi kastar hon sig ständigt ut på nya våghalsiga flygaruppdrag. Länge är hon Östafrikas enda kvinnliga pilot. Dessutom ger hon sig på ett rekordförsök: hon ska bli första människan någonsin som flyger ensam västerut över Atlanten. Bara någon kilometer från den amerikanska kusten får planet soppatorsk, motorn stannar och Beryl får panik …I ljudboksserien Historiska kvinnliga resenärer berättar Per J Andersson, författare och en av grundarna av tidningen Vagabond, om några av alla dessa förbisedda kvinnliga resenärer och upptäcksresande som trots många hinder reste ut i världen. Beryl Markham – Västerut i natten är del 6 i serien där alla avsnitt är fristående.
Straight on Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham
Born in England and raised in Kenya, Beryl Markham was a notorious beauty. She trained race horses and had scandalous affairs, but she is most remembered for being a pioneering aviatrix. She became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean and t...
Straight On Till Morning
Beryl Markham, like Karen Blixen, could only have come out of Africa. Pioneering aviatrix, flamboyant beauty, brilliant race-horse trainer, unscrupulous seducer - her life story is for every reader who was enthralled by Blixen's exotic world, that...
Beryl Bainbridge
Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974...
Markham Roberts
Markham Roberts
West with the Night
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, n...
West with the Night
West with the Night
West With the Night
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-Exup ry, 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
West With The Night
* ERNEST HEMINGWAY wrote to a friend: 'She can write rings around all of us ... I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book' * introduction by MARTHA GELLHORN
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Beryl Coronet (Easy Classics)
An illustrated adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes mystery - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages! Also includes a QR code for the free audiobook! 'There are no other beryls like these in the world, and they ...
Davis Beryl: Alone Together
Davis Beryl: Alone Together [CD]
Meryl Tarot
Printed on high-quality card material, and packaged in a handy un-bendable box, this tarot deck celebrates the legacy of Meryl Streep. With more credits to her name than cards in tarot, and 21 Academy Awards to boot, shes a guiding beacon for us a...
Queen Meryl
Meryl Streep is the most celebrated actress of our time. She's a chameleon who disappears fully into each character she plays. She never tackles the same role twice. Instead, she leverages her rarified platform to channel a range of tough, complic...
The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities
His health nearly broken after a decade combating eldritch entities and evil cultists, Holmes must marshal his inner resources in order to tackle his most dangerous and terrifying case yet. Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts, has a new...
Mykkä vesi, E-bok
Kun toimittaja Jerry Markhamin ruumis löydetään veneestä julkisen syyttäjän talon luota, nuori rikoskomisario Willow Reeves värvätään johtamaan tutkintaa. Tapaus herättää myös komisario Jimmy Perezin mielenkiinnon, vaikka hän on pysytellyt sivussa työkuvioista kihlattunsa kuoleman jälkeen.Markham, syntyperäinen shetlantilainen, lähti Lontooseen vuosia aiemmin edistääkseen uraansa. Jälkeensä hän jätti skandaalin turmeleman nuoren tytön. Markhamin kuolemaa tutkiessaan Willow ja Jimmy löytävät tiensä Sullom Voelle, Shetlannin öljy- ja kaasuteollisuuden sydämeen. Perinteisiä arvoja vaalivassa yhteisössä uusien energiamuotojen läpilyönti ei ole aina toivottua. Markham jahtasi isoa uutisjuttua viimeisinä päivinään. Juttua, jonka takia hänet piti vaientaa...
Davis Beryl: Through The Years
Davis Beryl: Through The Years [CD]
Helios: Espera (Beryl Coloured/Ltd)
Helios: Espera (Beryl Coloured/Ltd) [Vinyl LP]