West with the Night

294 pp. West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham's life in the Kenya during the 1920s and '30s. She is most well known as an aviator, but was a gifted writer as well - Ernest Hemingway offers his opinion of her work on the back cover, in which he states, "she has written so well... that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer... she can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers."