Cavallo amore mio
- 156pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
Beryl Markham Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
Beryl Markham fu un'autrice inglese emigrata in Kenya durante l'infanzia. La sua vita fu caratterizzata da avventura e anticonformismo, diventando la prima addestratrice di cavalli autorizzata del Kenya e un'abile pilota. Catturò le sue esperienze e il suo spirito indipendente nelle sue più famose memorie, riscoperte anni dopo e ritornate alla popolarità. La sua scrittura è spesso associata a paesaggi selvaggi e a un'anima indomita.
A Occidente con la notte
- 302pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
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 the first person to make it from London to New York nonstop. In Mary S. Lovell’s definitive biography, Beryl takes on new life—vividly portrayed by a master biographer whose knowledge of her subject is unparalleled.
Rivalen der Wüste und andere Erzählungen aus Afrika
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
West with the night
- 304pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
Beryl Markham moved to Kenya with her father at the age of four and stayed until her death in 1986. Her incredible autobiography describes the Africa she learnt to love: her childhood surrounded by the tribal people, her tangles - often nearly fatal - with its wild animals and her passions for racehorses and aeroplanes. Markham achieved notoriety and success as a horse trainer when one of her horses won the most prestigious race in Kenya. She turned her hand to aeroplanes with Denys Finch Hatton, the lover of Karen Blixen, as a teacher and became the first woman in Kenya to receive a commercial pilot's licence. Her adventures and courageous career as a bush pilot are recounted in vivid detail here, along with the richness and fascination of life in Kenya in the twenties and thirties.