[at-l] Reading...

[Arthur Gaudet]

I agree, it's a beautiful book. I read it on the side as I was looking for the
Boy Scout Hike research. Here's what a wrote in my logfile:
Markham, Beryl	West With the Night (1942) 		6/3/03
Highly praised by Ernest Hemingway I absorbed this one too quickly. Worth
rereading sometime when I know more about East Africa and the pre-war period
(Out of Africa could be next, Isak Dineson) Hemingway was resonating with the
tales of safari hunters that he tries to capture in the Snows of Kilimanjaro.
Also I'd like to know more about how her life unfolded from age 36 to her
death... The book is dedicated to her father, an honorable farmer who quits
Africa (near Nairobi) when she's 18 to go to Peru, leaving her behind to make
her way as a racehorse trainer. By this time however she's had quite a life as
the only white girl for a large distance around her farm. Well educated, with
wealthy friends, she moves into business as a bush pilot after meeting Tom Black
and learning to fly from him. She's flown Nairobi-London 6 times (4x solo),
before the attempt across the Atlantic. The cold air over Newfoundland froze the
air inlet for her last gas tank, starving the flow of fuel as she crashed into a
bog 12 miles from Sydney, Nova Scotia. Within days Tom Black is killed while
sitting on the tar at Liverpool. 

-----Original Message-----
From: at-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:at-l-bounces at backcountry.net] On
Behalf Of Leslie Booher
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:20 AM
To: EHamilton; at-l at backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [at-l] Reading...

I'd like to put in a plug for #8, "West with the Night".  It's a really good
book.  I read it several years ago, and I still think about it often.   a'bear
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