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This travel writer is like no other. The moment I began to read her memoir, the descriptions of Africa came to life and I felt like I was aloft with her in her bush plane. She approaches the changes in Africa because of European influence matter-of-factly, albeit with some nostalgia for the way it used to be. If you want to get lost a place you've never been, fly with Beryl Markham on her delivery routes.
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West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Deanna Knoll, October 4, 2006
This travel writer is like no other. The moment I began to read her memoir, the descriptions of Africa came to life and I felt like I was aloft with her in her bush plane. She approaches the changes in Africa because of European influence matter-of-factly, albeit with some nostalgia for the way it used to be. If you want to get lost a place you've never been, fly with Beryl Markham on her delivery routes.(6 of 15 readers found this comment helpful)