{"product_id":"9780865477636","title":"West with the Night : A Memoir (2ND)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeryl Markham's \u003ci\u003eWest with the Night \u003c\/i\u003eis a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and Isak Dinesen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond all measure. Born Beryl Clutterbuck in the middle of England, she and her father moved to Kenya when she was a girl, and she grew up with a zebra for a pet; horses for friends; baboons, lions, and gazelles for neighbors. She made money by scouting elephants from a tiny plane. And she would spend most of the rest of her life in East Africa as an adventurer, a racehorse trainer, and an aviatrix-she became the first person to fly nonstop from Europe to America, the first woman to fly solo east to west across the Atlantic. Hers was indisputably a life full of adventure and beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And then there is the writing. When Hemingway read Markham's book, he wrote to his editor, Maxwell Perkins: \"She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer . . . [She] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers . . . It is really a bloody wonderful book.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With a new introduction by Sara Wheeler-one of Markham's few legitimate literary heirs-\u003ci\u003eWest with the Night \u003c\/i\u003eshould once again take its place as one of the world's great adventure stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"North Point Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45993595863119,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":700.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9780865477636-1.jpg?v=1783037415","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9780865477636","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}