West With The Night - Beryl Markham

Written by Beryl Markham
Read by Alexandra O’Karma
Format: MP3
Unabridged

General Information
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Title: West With The Night
Author: Beryl Markham
Read By: Alexandra O’Karma
Genre: Audio Book
Publisher: Recorded Books Inc
Abridged: No

File Information
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Number of MP3s: 14
Total Duration: 9:18:26
Total MP3 Size: 319.60

Book Description
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One of the most beautifully crafted books I have ever read, with some
of the most poetic prose passages I could imagine, such as the following,
resonating with a stately and timeless quality so absent in our modern
life:
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing.
There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is
different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after
a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There
is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt.
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as
from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys,
or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure
or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy,
but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing
child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay.
Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may
linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.
Born in England in 1902, Markham was taken by her father to East Africa
in 1906. She spent her childhood playing with native Maruni children
and apprenticing with her father as a trainer and breeder of racehorses.
In the 1930s, she became an African bush pilot, and in September 1936,
became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to
west. –This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

The Nation
With the skill of someone who has filled long nights with stories, Markham
recounts her adventures–discoveries, rescues, and narrow escapes, the
glint of an airplane abandoned in the desert, the look of a lion about
to pounce…. Much more than a pilot’s memoir, West With the Night is
a wise, funny, and inspiring exploration of a life well lived. –This
text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.