Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (1988)

Siren of the skies: Beryl Markham - ABC listen

Beryl Markham Biography | Pantheon

If you are addicted to everything Africa like I am, I highly suggest Beryl Markham’s book “West with the Night”. Born in 1902, Markham grew up in Kenya in the African bush. She had little formal education and spent most of her childhood speaking Swahili, Nandi, and Maasai and learning to spear hunt with the local Nandi Murani tribe. Beryl was an extraordinary woman who went on to become Africa’s first female professional pilot, the first woman in Africa to get her racehorse trainer’s license, an

Beryl Markham — the most daring aviator of her time