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Summary: incredible autobiography of an incredible woman
Review: Bery Markham's vividly written autobiography draws you into a dream fantasy of Africa from the heights. Anyone with any desire to travel to Africa will not put this book down, yet when finished will want more.
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Summary: Very powerful and well written book!
Review: I just finished reading the book and found it to be a very elegant example of English literature. It captures so eloquently what it must have been like in British East Africa in the 1920's and 30's. Her discriptions of flying in remote and uncivilized country are masterful. I grew up flying with my father in a floatplane in Alaska and her descriptions of the forest canopys and rugged mountains brought back a flood of memories. This book should be required reading in all high school and college level literature courses. What a remarkable woman and such a role model for young women!
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: A wonderful book about an amazing woman growing up in Africa... It was the first book I was assigned to read in college and it was a winner!... It is interesting to read this book knowing that she and Isak Denison (of "Out of Africa" fame) were apparently both lovers of Denys Finchhattten (sp)... The chapter about how men with "black water die" is particularly good...
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Summary: Absolutly spellbinding--it is a plane ride to another world
Review: I visited Kenya last year and saw this book all over the shelves, and I picked it up. Little did I know, I was picking up one of the best written and most evocative books of all time. I was swept away immediatly by her involving narrative and descriptions. And let me tell you, the descriptions capture the Kenyan landscape and people remarkably well. It is just as wonderful and mysterious as Markham writes. This book transported me to the dazzling age of the 1920's and 30's in Kenya--which is full of fascinating trailblazers. I read a lot of the novel outloud, and her thoughts seemed to become my thoughts. Her anecdotes and experiences are so poignant that they seem to shoot me right through the heart. I want to reread this novel again and again, it is wonderous. Hemingway was right when he said " it is a bloody wonderful book." If you like Markham, you should read Isak Dineson's classic Out of Africa. However, Markham does more soul-searching and delving into herself than Dineson does. You'll recognize some familiar charactars as well. Both are true stories!
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Summary: Enjoyable quick read
Review: I was pleasantly surprised at Beryl Markham's writing style. Her stories are entertainingly told while giving you cause to stop and think at times. A quick read that will leave you hungry for more of her stories and writing style...
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Summary: Reading Markham...the next best thing to a perfect landing
Review: I have never before experienced a book with such beautiful writing that I longed to be Beryl, or at least longed to fly along with her on those adventures in Africa (and West over the Atlantic on that night). Her use of creative, imaginative adjectives makes the reader itch to go flying. For this new pilot....reading Beryl Markham was the next best thing to making my own perfect landing.
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: West With the Night is one of the truly great autobiographies. Each of the three phases of Beryl Markham's life (child in the African bush, top-flight race-horse trainer, and pioneer pilot) are so beautifully described that, by the end of the book, they have become part of your life, as well. Her writing is limpid, graceful, and transparent; it is so effortless and clear that you virtually experience the events described without the sense of any intermediary medium. (I know this sounds impossibly pendantic, but I really can't think of a less pretentious way to say it.)I regret that the need for female role models has lead to this being billed as one of the great books by women; it should be known as one of the great autobiographies - full stop.
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Summary: A great , adventurous lyric poem, written as prose,
Review: This is a great adventure book and prose-style lyric poem in one book. It absolutely ranks in the top 5 books [to my taste] that I've ever read. In the same style, I place it alongside: Moby Dick The Odessey And Quiet Flows the Don, which is quite a group to stand alongside! As an adventure story, it is remarkable: something happens on every page so astounding it cannot be fiction. Her power of description is also truely extrordinary. I have read others reviews of this book: they are not exagerations!
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Summary: One of the best books ever written
Review: I cried when this book was over. And I cried throughout! The poetry and fire of the writing put me in her life as if it were I living the adventures myself and not just flipping the pages of a good book.
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Summary: Read this book by candlelight
Review: West with the Night is not an autobiography. It is the gradual revealing of a fascinating life through a series of remembered incidents. And the telling of each is a jewel, as if you had found your old friend in a quiet moment and said, "Tell me a story..." This is a book to read aloud to your love, to be shared and savored like a bottle of fine port. Enjoy!
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