Flying West at Night (yuanxing Translation Series)

About This Novel

Thanks to the urging of Saint-Exupery, the author of "The Little Prince", this masterpiece has been continuously reprinted. This is the memoir of author Beryl Markham's thirty years of life in Africa, showing this extraordinary woman's legendary life from childhood to 1936: raising horses, taming horses, hunting lions, catching elephants, flying airplanes, and becoming the first pilot to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. This book is a series of memories connected by fragments of thirty years in Africa, telling the life experience of the legendary woman Beryl Markham from childhood to 1936. She is passionate about training racehorses and flying airplanes. The book includes her childhood in Africa, her participation in hunting, her friendship with the local indigenous people, the process of training racehorses, and her past experiences of flying a single-wing, two-seater wooden propeller plane alone, engaging in professional flying in East Africa, and hunting for elephants with a hunting team. It also describes in detail the political and natural dangers she encountered while flying back to the UK from Africa. Finally, it records her solo flight across the Atlantic from the UK to North America in September 1936.

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