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 local indigenous people, the process of training racehorses, and the past of flying a single-wing, two-seater wooden propeller plane alone, engaging in professional flying in East Africa, and hunting for elephants in a hunting team. It also describes in detail the political and natural obstacles 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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This book is very good! The stories in the book are very attractive, especially the author's adventures in Africa, which made me feel like I was soaring in the sky with her. Her courage and determination to fly the plane are admirable, and the book's descriptions of the African landscape and wildlife are vivid. I especially like the friendship between her and the local indigenous people. Those warm plots are touching. All in all, this is a book worth reading and I recommend it to you!
This book is very good! The stories in the book are very attractive, especially the author's adventures in Africa, which made me feel like I was soaring in the sky with her. Her courage and determination to fly the plane are admirable, and the book's descriptions of the African landscape and wildlife are vivid. I especially like the friendship between her and the local indigenous people. Those warm plots are touching. All in all, this is a book worth reading and I recommend it to you!
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