WEST WITH THE NIGHT—Beryl Markham—Houghton Mlfflin ($3). West With The Night is a tough, un even, undisciplined, sometimes remarkable, often annoying book—chiefly about Aviatrix Beryl Markham’s ...

Beryl Markham was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from East to West. The British-born Kenyan woman was also a racehorse trainer, a writer and a fearless adventurer. Once famous as an ...

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